immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …

wages and workers cannot commit to not searching on the job. The resulting progression of wages (from firms paying just … growth are negatively correlated with initial wages. …

social ties do not exist? Third, does the existence of social ties have spill-over effects on wages and hiring in competitive …

provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that are associated with voluntary or involuntary mobility and with wage rises or …