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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from...
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and …
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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …
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How do immigrants spend their time? The process of assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation - what immigrants do with their...
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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Kuhn, Peter; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2003
? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, Canada, and the United States, we estimate the …. Relatively inflexible wages and generous unemployment insurance in Australia suggest that immigrants there might improve … than in Australia, with the general consensus that the U.S. labor market is the most flexible of the three. We find that …
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