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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2010
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014
to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
Borjas, George J. - 2021
Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2021
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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Tax Reform and Adjustment Costs : the Impact on Investment and Market Value
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2002
This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and market value. Unlike earlier measures, the effective tax rate derived is valid in the presence of adjustment costs and anticipated tax changes. The derived measure of the impact...
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Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing
Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Mamuneas, Theofanis P.; … - 2021
This paper accounts for quality improvements and adjustment costs in all inputs to U.S. manufacturing production. Adjustment processes for non-capital inputs are slower than previously recognized. Annual adjustment percentages are: labor 77, capital 30, energy 20, and materials 21. Factor prices...
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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...
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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013
This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs -...
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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
Autor, David H. - 2007
This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...
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Skill Requirements Across Firms and Labor Markets : Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals
Deming, David - 2017
We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ten general skills. There is substantial variation in these skill requirements, even within narrowly defined occupations. Focusing particularly on...
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