reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …

immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of … our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the share of skilled labor in total wages in Mexico using state … account for over 50 percent of the increase in the skilled labor share of total wages that occurred during the late 1980s …

In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the … index of Northern activities within each industry, relative to that of the South. We confirm that this change in relative …

initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels … layoff. These findings, which are robust to a large set of worker, firm and industry controls, and various alternative …