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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986
Davis, Stephen J. - 2010
This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138351
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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s
Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto - 2010
With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M. - 2012
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
Gittleman, Maury - 2013
Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013
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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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap
Carruthers, Celeste - 2016
The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...
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Immigration in American Economic History
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …
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Stepping Off the Wage Escalator : The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment
Elsby, Michael - 2010
This paper emphasizes the role of wage growth in shaping work incentives. It provides an analytical framework for labor supply in the presence of a return to labor market experience and aggregate productivity growth. A key finding of the theory is that there is an interaction between these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152379
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International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We then combine our estimates of persistent labor income...
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