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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2016
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population since 2000. A decomposition shows that nearly two-thirds of the decline can be attributed to...
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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
employment or the outside option of self-employment/entrepreneurship. We also discuss countervailing incentives among the mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278687
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Self-Employment and Migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
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Product Demand Shifts and Wage Inequality
Leonardi, Marco - 2003
The UK and the US have experienced both rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers since the 1980s. These trends are typically interpreted as concurrent shifts of relative skill supplies and demands, and the demand shifts are attributed to skill-biased technological change or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261619
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Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality
Leonardi, Marco - 2003
This paper provides some empirical evidence and a theory of the relationship between residual wage inequality and the increasing dispersion of capital/labor ratios across firms. I document the increasing variance of capital/labor ratios across firms in the US labor market. I also show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261620
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Earnings instability of job stayers and job changers
Leonardi, Marco - 2003
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability (the variance of the transitory component of earnings) increased much more among job changers than among job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261646
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A Structural Labour Supply Model with Nonparametric Preferences
van Soest, Arthur; Das, Marcel; Gong, Xiaodong - 2000
Nonparametric techniques are usually seen as a statistic device for data description and exploration, and not as a tool for estimating models with a richer economic structure, which are often required for policy analysis. This paper presents an example where nonparametric flexibility can be...
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate...
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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2003
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers. This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative wage rigidities. More attention has been paid recently to an alternative mechanism, the crowding-out of...
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