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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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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081831
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071300
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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963750
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159518
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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
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Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much?
Gabaix, Xavier - 2006
This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO%u2019s pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779748
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955946
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Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration : Theory and Evidence from the U.S
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2017
) immigrant-intensive jobs, thus lowering (or raising) relative wages in these occupations, and explain why this process differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958582