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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer, Robert - 2016

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...

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More Slack than Meets the Eye? Recent Wage Dynamics in Advanced Economies

Hong, Gee Hee - 2018

-time employment appears to have weakened wage growth even in economies where headline unemployment rates are now at, or below, their …

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What's Up with U.S. Wage Growth and Job Mobility?

Danninger, Stephan - 2016

the unemployment rate - has become horizontal after 2008. Similarly, job-turnover rates have continued to decline. Job …

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Understanding U.S. Wage Dynamics

Abdih, Yasser - 2018

and complementedat the micro-economic level. Lower regional unemployment puts an upward pressure onwages of individuals …

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Employment Time and the Cyclicality of Earnings Growth

Hoffmann, Eran - 2018

We study how the distribution of earnings growth evolves over the business cycle in Italy. Wedistinguish between two sources of annual earnings growth: changes in employment time (number ofweeks of employment within a year) and changes in weekly earnings. Changes in employment timegenerate the...

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The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines : Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process?

Cerutti, Eugenio; Li, Yiliang - 2022

Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find...

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Shimer, Robert - 2010

welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …

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