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Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
Lang, Kevin; Dickens, William T. - 2021
This paper briefly reviews the empirical evidence on labor market segmentation and presents some new results on the similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be understood in a labor market segmentation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246663
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William - 2014
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063124
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The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
Hall, Robert E. - 2014
.4 million and the possibility of payoffs over $1 billion. We conclude that startups attract entrepreneurs with lower risk … aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751344
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013
paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071300
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Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
Bernstein, Shai - 2018
New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910286
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Racial Discrimination and Competition
Levine, Ross - 2014
This paper assesses the impact of competition on racial discrimination. The dismantling of inter- and intrastate bank restrictions by U.S. states from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s reduced financial market imperfections, lowered entry barriers facing nonfinancial firms, and boosted the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751333
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2017
, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962728
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2014
Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069687
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Defining Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
United States and Germany we find that 80-90 percent of entrepreneurs are opportunity entrepreneurs. Applying our proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860853
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - 2007
demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777397