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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2009
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...
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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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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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Rethinking the Area Approach : Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2010
employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability … of the Mexican Population to predict immigration by skill level within California. Looking at immigration to California …, in turn, explains the counter-intuitive fact that there is a zero correlation between immigration and wage and employment …
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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the supply of labor encourages technological...
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Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017
We use both longitudinal administrative data and cross-sectional household survey data to study the margins of labor market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand,...
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration …
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Immigration and National Wages : Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …
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