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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

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Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia - 2005

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...

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Financial Markets and Wages

Michelacci, Claudio - 2005

financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: They pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become … unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this … way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey …

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Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa

Levinsohn, James - 2004

This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes …

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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

Beegle, Kathleen - 2004

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health …

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004

What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...

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Neighbors as Negatives : Relative Earnings and Well-Being

Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - 2004

This paper investigates whether individuals feel worse off when others around them earn more. In other words, do people care about relative position and does lagging behind the Joneses' diminish well-being? To answer this question, I match individual-level panel data containing a number of...

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many measurement and identification difficulties, and...

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Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes

Cawley, John - 2004

endogeneity of nursing home wages. The results from the IV models are consistent with the theory of factor substitution: higher … nursing home wages are associated with lower staffing, greater use of materials (specifically, physical restraints), and a …

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