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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … find that the wages of competing native West Germans respond negatively to the large influx of similar East German workers …
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in … country. Using data from the Quality of Life Survey (2011-2014), we analyze differences in wages between those who were forced … find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …
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temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages. …
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affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … school and on teenagers, groups likely to earn low wages. Conventional economic theory predicts that higher minimum wages … lead to higher hourly earnings among people who are employed but lower employment rates. Data from the Current Population …
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A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it …
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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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