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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411093
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People people: social capital and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor);  … - 2005
interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that … the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002630524
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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001
The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403912
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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states
Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521168
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Fixed exchange-rate policy and real wage growth : quasi-experimental evidence
Andini, Corrado - 2014
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457884
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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the great depression
Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412413
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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403963
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Immigrant networks and US bilateral trade : the role of immigrant income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153045
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339098
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Not so lucky any more : CEO compensation in financially distressed firms
Kang, Qiang (contributor); Mitnik, Oscar A. (contributor) - 2008
There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779098