less-skilled domestic workers when a TFW program of this kind is in place. The model also implies higher unemployment rates …

This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …

from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …

the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country model with search in labor markets and featuring legal and … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …

the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country model with search in labor markets and featuring legal and … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …. These changes led to higher job-finding rates and starting wages and more stable employment relationships after an … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … in the informal sector, whereas both wage employment and wages of men in the formal sector increase. Increases in prices …