Automation: Theory, Evidence, and Outlook

P Restrepo - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages,
factor shares, and productivity. I first introduce the task model and explain why this …

The effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation

C Albert, P Bustos, J Ponticelli - 2021 - nber.org
We study the effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation across regions,
sectors and firms. We use newly digitized administrative reports on extreme weather events …

Economic shocks and infant health: Evidence from a trade reform in Brazil

C Charris, D Branco, B Carrillo - Journal of Development Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Using a uniquely rich set of data sources spanning more than 3,000 Brazilian municipalities
over a horizon of 25 years, we investigate the effects of changes in local economic …

Local economic and political effects of trade deals: Evidence from NAFTA

J Choi, I Kuziemko, E Washington… - American Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Why have white, less-educated voters left the Democratic Party? We highlight the role of the
1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study analysis, we …

The long-run labor market effects of the canada-us free trade agreement

BK Kovak, PM Morrow - 2022 - nber.org
This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement
(CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor market using matched longitudinal administrative data for …

Globalization and inequality in Latin America

R Dix-Carneiro, BK Kovak - 2023 - nber.org
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin
America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis …

Labor Mobility and Unemployment over the Business Cycle

A Foschi, CL House, C Proebsting… - AEA Papers and …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We estimate the responsiveness of net labor migration to regional differences in
unemployment rates across the United States since the mid-1970s. Our baseline estimate …

Trading places: Mobility responses of native and foreign-born adults to the China trade shock

D Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson - 2023 - nber.org
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born
workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to …

The contribution of immigration to local labor market adjustment

M Amior - 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
The US faces persistent spatial disparities in joblessness, which should theoretically be
eliminated by population reallocation. Can immigration accelerate this adjustment process …

[PDF][PDF] Climate Change and the Geography of the US Economy

S Leduc, DJ Wilson - 2023 - frbsf.org
This paper examines how the spatial distribution of people and jobs in the United States has
been and will be impacted by climate change. Using novel county-level weather data from …