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compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
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Despite the long economic expansion, employment among young men is lower today than it was in the late 1960s. This … current wage matters) is rejected in favor of one that includes forward-looking considerations, embodied in returns to …
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. Moreover, they have also experienced a deterioration in their employment and earnings over the last three decades. In this … paper, we document this evolution and adopt a longitudinal approach to show that employment and earnings losses suffered by …
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throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average … impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their …
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We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …
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encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British … any positive effects of job-specific human capital on wage growth within jobs are outweighed by the effects of job changes … within firms. -- job spells ; employer spells ; wage-tenure profiles …
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wage growth. This paper analyzes the sources of the changing shape of the lower-tail of the U.S. wage and employment …After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings …
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Herkunftsland mit höherer Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung und höherem Einkommen in den USA verbunden ist. Dieser positive Zusammenhang wird …
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This paper considers effects of body mass on wages in the years following labor market entry. The preferred models allow current wages to be affected by both past and current body mass, as well as past wages, while also addressing the endogeneity of body mass. I find that a history of severe...
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