The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show … earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …

, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions … consequently earn higher wages, except for mothers who are willing to accept lower pay for the option to work from home. Finally …

higher wages than those working on-site, and the difference increased sharply during the pandemic. Real wages grew 4 …

heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually exclusive labor supply regimes. We estimate the wage and income elasticities … the Stone-Geary income and wage elasticities are much larger for labor supply to the second job compared with the main job …

The Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) subsidizes long-term care to satisfy the increasing desire to age …

The Medicaid Home and Community- Based Services (HCBS) program in the United States subsidizes the long-term care …

effects of teleworking on wages, and differences in time-use patterns between office and work-at-home workdays. We find that …

Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that … immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another … asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues …