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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the old Europe of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to...
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different …
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Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …
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While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …
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United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages …. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and …. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger …
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