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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …
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wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …
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affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …
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Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …
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Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the same workplace, even if the workers carry out completely independent tasks and do not engage in team work? This may well be the case because social interaction among co-workers...
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