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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war

Utar, Hâle - 2022

-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …

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Signals from on high and the power of growth mindset: a natural field experiment in attracting minorities to high-profile positions

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021

We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. 5,000 prospective applicants were randomized into treatments varying a portion of recruiting materials. We find that self-selection at two...

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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