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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …
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In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …
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find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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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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, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …
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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We … exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages …
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of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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