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Monopsony power and guest worker programs

Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019

, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could … be 47 percent lower, suggesting that employers do not use the extent of their monopsony power. Enforcing wage regulations …

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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find evidence of rent sharing (RS), with wage-profit...

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data

Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020

This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...

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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?

Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018

respondents' preference for this form of discrimination. …

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The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination

Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020

We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …

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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? : a longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020

Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …

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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration

Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018

During his presidential campaign, the new elected President of U.S., Donald Trump, called for a complete ban on Muslims from entering the United States. Although numerous European observers have been shocked by his racist proposal, using the most recent round of the European Social Survey, this...

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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be …

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Social identity and perceived income adequacy

Goel, Deepti; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2018

Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income adequacy, which is one of the factors that shapes subjective well-being, is small. Our paper fills this lacuna in the literature. We utilize nationally representative data on...

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