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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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in industry are employed in establishments producing goods or services, and do not perform research and development (R …
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We use Japanese prefectural wage and land price data to estimate the magnitude of agglomeration effects in manufacturing and finance. We also examine the range of agglomeration effects by estimating the extent to which they diminish with distance, using a specification that encompasses the polar...
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Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor …
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and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign … as their size, industry, and location. The answer is that foreign firms do pay a higher price, and even a higher price … in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate …
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women's relative wage increased, particularly during the period of liberalization. Both between and within-industry shifts … also favored female workers. With regards to between-industry shifts, tariff reductions expanded sectors which were … initially female intensive. With regards to within-industry shifts, we find a positive association between reductions in export …
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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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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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natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …
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