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Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...
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Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives … increase in the fraction of workers in an occupation group who are foreign born tends to lower the wages of low-skilled natives …
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similar or higher expected wages in their chosen occupation compared to nonfemale-dominated occupations. This result indicates …
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We analyze how bankruptcy laws affect the general equilibrium interactions between credit and wages. Soft laws reduce … agents, soft laws lower wages, which increases the pledgeable income of richer agents and decreases the liquidation rates …
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I use panel data to examine whether long-term changes in industry wages are positively related to long-term changes in … between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … less skilled individuals in a manner that biases down the estimated relationship between industry employment and wages in …
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A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a …
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A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller …
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In this paper we use micro panel data to examine the effects of oil price shocks on employment and real wages, at the … the basis of skill level. We find that oil price increases result in a substantial decline in real wages for all workers … substantial changes in employment shares and relative wages across industries. However, we find little evidence that oil price …
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This paper uses micro data to examine differences in the cyclical variability of employment, hours, and wages for … workers are subject to essentially the same degree of cyclical variation in wages. That is, relative offer wage differentials …
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This article analyzes the effects of advance notice requirements on aggregate output, wages, employment, and welfare …
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