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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375969
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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European vs. American hours worked : assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins
Langot, François (contributor);  … - 2008
that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the … the number of hours worked per employee, has the smallest role. -- Hours of market work ; participation ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778864
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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates
Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688999
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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The great recession of 2008 - 2009 and the blue-collar depression
Sum, Andrew M.; Khatiwada, Ishwar; McLaughlin, Joseph; … - In: Challenge 53 (2010) 4, pp. 6-24
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003992634
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The massive shedding of jobs in America
Sum, Andrew M.; McLaughlin, Joseph - In: Challenge 53 (2010) 6, pp. 62-76
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729367
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Where to work? : The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor);  … - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504665
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Minimum wages, the earned income tax credit, and employment : evidence from the post-welfare reform era
Neumark, David (contributor);  … - 2007
that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003531875