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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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macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical …
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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …
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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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do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … has not taken place to a full extent. Overall, immigrants hardly affect the wages and employment levels of natives, and …
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