This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional – on technology – wages in … industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

produce supply shocks that may affect wages of newly legalized immigrants. The effect of supply shock may be especially … though they had similar wages in their first U.S. job. This suggests that supply shock brought on by the IRCA restricted the …

likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested …. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The worker data are informative on individual wages and labor market … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …

short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …