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Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...
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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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experience employment gains. Third, the presence of institutions that provide employment protection and high coverage of …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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