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increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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Studies of public/private sector wage differentials typically assume that the govenment and union status of a worker are exogenous variables. Recently, some studies have relaxed this assumption slightly by allowing the union status to be endogenous. In this paper, we consider a more general...
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Between 1940 and 1950 wage differentials within and between labor market groups narrowed significantly - the so-called 'Great Compression'. This paper disaggregates the Great Compression into its public and private components. Wage compression in the public sector, along with a decline in the...
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The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite a large expansion in the college/high school wage differential during the 1980s in the private sector, the public sector college wage premium...
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This paper examines the changes over time in public sector wages and employment relative to private sector wages and … employment using data from surveys of establishments and individuals. The paper finds that:(1) The pay of public sector workers … occupations showing federal workers to be lower paid.(4) Public sector employment follows a very different pattern of change than …
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There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by … that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
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find that consistent with our theory a local influx of immigrants crowds out employment of native-born workers in more …
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academic and policy analysis are unknown. This paper measures the effect of negative credit information on the employment and … credit is only one-fourth as large. Negative credit information also causes an increase in self-employment and a decrease in …
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entrepreneurs in new firm creation. Using city-industry variation over four decades, we estimate the employment - wage elasticity to … local population is associated with a proportional increase in employment. These results provide indirect information about …
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