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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings … isexamined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is foundthat immigration has a largenegative effect on the … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from …
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deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …
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records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role …
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We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by … developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using … this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the …
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We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …
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