This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of US-born workers … relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of US workers. However, contrary to the findings of previous … literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of US-born workers. We show evidence of …

We analyse the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model, which allows for … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each …. There is convergence to natives in the occupational distribution, but not in wages. In the long run, the return for …