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Moretti, Enrico - 2010

the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this … policy. -- Wages ; general equilibrium …

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Automation and the changing nature of work

Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2022

This study identifies the job attributes, and in particular skills and abilities, which predict the likelihood a job is recently automatable drawing on the Josten and Lordan (2020) classification of automatability, EU labour force survey data and a machine learning regression approach. We find...

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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries

Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022

We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...

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The impact of childhood health on adult labor market outcomes

Smith, James P. - 2009

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were...

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Independent individual decision-makers in household models and the new home economics

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2010

Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual models, including collective models. This paper discusses another alternative: independent individual...

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Decomposing real wage changes in the United States

Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2018

composition, structural and selection effects. Composition effects have increased wages at all quantiles but the patterns of wage …

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Minimum wages and spatial equilibrium : theory and evidence

Monras, Joan - 2015

only binding in certain states. This has been used in previous literature to evaluate the effects of minimum wages on … findings of this previous literature. The model shows that the introduction of minimum wages can lead to an increase or a … provides empirical evidence consistent with the model. On average, increases in minimum wages lead to increases in average …

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What drives the urban wage premium? : evidence along the wage distribution

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013

This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...

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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2024

Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions -...

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The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

causal impact of poor health on labour force participation, hours worked and wages. There appears to be a significant …

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