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 … relationship between trade and labor income risk. Importantly, by contrasting estimates from various sub-samples of workers, such …

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 … do not affect the reemployment wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, implying reservation wages do not …

demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest … workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of …

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …

reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our … welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of …

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative … behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …

understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing … among temporary and contract workers. We link administrative workers' compensation claims to earnings records to measure the … contract workers and direct-hire workers injured doing the same job. We use a triple-difference identification strategy to …

that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market … Income Tax (NIT) at the bottom of the income distribution, in the presence of unemployment and wage responses to taxation …, such as competitive models with fixed or flexible wages and models with matching frictions. Our results show that the …

large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s … of earnings or wage losses sustained by displaced workers in the United States.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …

immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …