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Immigration, Unemployment and Wages : New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2017

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

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Earnings Instability and Tenure

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - 2021

We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we use a descriptive measure of earnings instability and fixed effects regressions. Second, we develop a formal model of earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory...

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The Impact of Immigration on Wage Dynamics : Evidence from the Algerian Independence War

Edo, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...

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'Unwarranted' Wage Changes and the Return on Capital

Katsimi, Margarita - 2009

Casual empiricism suggests that “unwarranted” wage changes, defined as the part of wage growth that is not explained by changes in labour productivity, are negatively associated with the return on capital. The main point of this paper is to show that “unwarranted” wage changes have no...

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Asymmetries in Earnings, Employment and Wage Risk in Great Britain

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....

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Wages and Employment : The Role of Occupational Skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2018

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kroft, Kory - 2017

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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