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Over the last half century, U.S. wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of …
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We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these trends in labor force participation and wages for male...
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth …
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inequality in OECD countries since the 1980s. In this literature, no attention has been paid to demand side considerations. Using … elasticity increases, trade plays an ever larger role in explaining wage inequality changes, and as the elasticity goes below one … of recent trends in OECD wage inequality -beyond that reported in recent literature …
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This paper explores the use of structural models as an alternative to reduced form methods when decomposing observed joint trade and technology driven wage changes into components attributable to each source. Conventional mobile factors Heckscher-Ohlin models typically reveal problems of...
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. Neither crowdout nor a deterioration in the quality of jobs available to the less skilled seems likely to fully explain these …
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In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different …-1997. Many different individual and family outcome measures are considered including: employment to population ratios, weekly …
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In a static setup, migration of unskilled labor may be resisted by the entire native-born population because, being relatively low earners, migrants are net beneficiaries of the fiscal system. However, the paper shows that with a pay-as-you-go pension, an important pillar of the welfare state,...
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