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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
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We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the distribution. The sufficient statistics are … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …
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probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … ; unemployment …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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Covid pandemic. At the same time, the unemployment rate, the growth domestic product (GDP) per capita growth rate, the … conference board's leading economic index and the wages growth rate are considered. Econometric models were finally used to study …, supporting the hypothesis of a delayed response in the labor market. The unemployment rate reacted particularly late to the black …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
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, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …
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of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching …
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