school males in the U.S., the wages of male new entrants have risen relative to more experienced workers for both high school …

expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …

immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and … economic performance of Mexican immigrants, and contrasts this evolution with that experienced by other immigrants arriving in …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states …. They argue that using "local controls" establishes that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment of less … analyses and conclusions, and argue that the best evidence still points to job loss from minimum wages for very low …

The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. Less well … summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from “it is now well-established that … higher minimum wages do not reduce employment,” to “the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there is no …

employment shifts into high- and low-wage jobs at the expense of the middle leading to rapidly rising upper tail wage inequality …

visible in a recent "polarization" of skill demands in which employment has expanded in high-wage and low-wage work at the …