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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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reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …
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and to declining real wages of less skilled males during the 1980s. We find that while the male wage declines are …
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Economic growth in Europe and Asia and Latin America could have contri- buted in many different ways to lower wages and … price reductions twist the labor demand curve, dictating lower real wages for unskilled workers who reside in communities … with abundant unskilled labor but raising the wages for unskilled workers who are fortunate to live in communities …
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who are reemployed in the remaining manufacturing and non-trade sectors. The results show that relative wages of workers … different levels of education, relative wages of workers with some college education rise by 3.5 percent, while the real wages …
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impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …
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significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
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' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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