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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2009

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Borjas, George J. - 2003

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …

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Evidence on the Relationship between Recruiting and Starting Wage

Faberman, R. Jason - 2016

Using data from the Employment Opportunity Pilot Project, we examine the relationship between the starting wage paid to the worker filling a vacancy, the number of applications attracted by the vacancy, the number of candidates interviewed for the vacancy, and the duration of the vacancy. We...

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In Search of Labor Demand

Beaudry, Paul - 2014

We propose and estimate a novel specification of the labor demand curve incorporating search frictions and the role of entrepreneurs in new firm creation. Using city-industry variation over four decades, we estimate the employment - wage elasticity to be -1 at the industry-city level and -0.3 at...

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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply With Coordinated Working Times

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...

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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers

Dube, Arindrajit - 2018

We show that administrative hourly wage data exhibits considerable bunching at round numbers that cannot be explained by rounding of survey respondents. We consider two explanations--worker left-digit bias and employer optimization frictions. We experimentally rule out left-bunching by...

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Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper examines the relationship between price growth and skill intensity across 150 manufacturing industries between 1989 and 1995. There are two main findings. First, wage growth and intermediate goods price increases are passed through to final product prices roughly in proportion to...

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