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life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...
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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm … natives' wages. …
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1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …
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We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey and reveal a substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from home. The premium persists within narrowly defined jobs and after controlling for workplace activities and accounts to...
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
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differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …
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