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immigrants already employed, while the marginal effect on average firm wages is positively associated with the share of immigrant …
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markets, based on federal merger scrutiny guidelines, and that concentration generally decreases wages. For example, moving … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could …
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Financial incentives affect the labour supply decisions of households, but typically the impact of such incentives varies significantly across household types. While there is a substantial literature on the labour supply effects of tax reforms and in-work benefits, the impact of changes in...
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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment …
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This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for proclimate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law...
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This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...
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