This paper examines the welfare effects of international trade on workers in a new dynamic general equilibrium discrete choice model labor mobility, where workers’ set jobs is endogenous. The analysis exploits differential exposure sectors and regions to destination-specific demand shocks estimate impacts exports wages, employment, using employer-employee panel data for Brazil. It then employs ...

We investigate the impact of computerization white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 2010-2016 for office administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at job-title level they increase skills required applicants. Furthermore, change task content such broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill functions. ag...

Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, has been widely used for data-intensive computing. In order to improve performance, multiple jobs operating on a common data file can be processed as a batch to share the cost of scanning the file. However, in practice, jobs often do not arrive at the same time, and batching them means longer waiting time for jobs that arrive earlier. In this ...

Aid, Growth, and Jobs Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and services th...

Distributed systems execute background or alternative jobs while waiting for data or requests to arrive from another processor. In those cases, the following shut-down scheduling problem arises: given a set of jobs of known processing time, schedule them on m machines so as to maximize the total weight of jobs completed before an initially unknown deadline. We will present optimally competitive...