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Labor market effects of US sick pay mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …
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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 that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian fulltime workers with permanent contracts, on...
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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 …
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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
prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
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All that glitters is not gold : wages and education for US immigrants
Bertoli, Simone; Stillman, Steven - 2019
percent of the variance in log wages for migrants with a given number of years of schooling is due to differences within …
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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era
Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019
Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2023
higher wages than those working on-site, and the difference increased sharply during the pandemic. Real wages grew 4 …
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