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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2014

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …

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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2014

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014

At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...

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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …

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The labor market impact of high-skill immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2005

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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William S. - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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The labor demand curve is downward sloping : reexamining the impact of immigration on the labor market

Borjas, George J. - 2003

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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers’ compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market and the Wage Structure

Borjas, George J. - 2009

The increasing internationalization of the U.S. labor market has had important effects on the wage structure. Immigration has probably increased wage inequality because recent immigrant waves tend to be less skilled than earlier waves. Growing trade deficits in durable goods have also increased...

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