In this paper I first analyze the wage effects of immigrants on native workers in the US economy and its top immigrant-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families. The goal is to establish whether the...

We build a novel equilibrium model in which households' labor supply choices form the link between sorting on the marriage market and sorting on the labor market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production - whether partners' hours are complements or substitutes - shapes...

Rüdiger Soltwedel (et al.): Regulierungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der Bundesrepublik. Kieler Studien (Band 233), Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, herausgegeben von Horst Siebert. Verlag J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen 1990. 267 Seiten, 66 DM (broschiert), 89 DM (Leinen)