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The impact of international trade on wages
Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000
Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...
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The structure of wages : an international comparison
Lazear, Edward P. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2008
the Netherlands, 1999-2003 / Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel -- Finland : firm factors in wages and wage changes / Roope …
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
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Differences and changes in wage structures
Freeman, Richard B. (contributor); Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1995
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Labor Mobility and Wages
Mincer, Jacob - 1979
1. The initially steep and later decelerating declines of labor mobility with working age are in large part due to the similar but more steeply declining relation between mobility and length of job tenure
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Wages, Nonwage Job Characteristics, and Labor Mobility
Bartel, Ann P. - 1980
This paper examines the impact of a set of nonwage job characteristics on the quit decisions of young and middle-aged men. The empirical analysis shows that young men are less likely to quit "physical" jobs or jobs with bad working conditions but are more likely to quit repetitive jobs. Older...
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain … the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on … period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage …
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...
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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2006
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this problem. The impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born...
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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