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demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …
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We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …
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that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …
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Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …
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reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …
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Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …
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Alternative work arrangements, including temporary and contract work, have become more widespread. There is interest in understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing social insurance programs to address this...
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that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market …, such as competitive models with fixed or flexible wages and models with matching frictions. Our results show that the …
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