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to have contributed to a contraction of employment in the Mexico City manufacturing belt, a rapid expansion of … manufacturing employment in northern Mexico, and an increase in the wage premia paid to skilled workers. The effects of economic ….S. cities on the Mexican border, whose employment growth is strongly positively correlated with export production in neighboring …
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This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...
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status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …
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Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by...
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reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …
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immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …
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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 …
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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 …
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In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the …
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employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through … initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels … adjustment is highly uneven across workers according to their conditions of employment in the pre-shock period …
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