arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills … for 73 to 95 percent. Changes in English skills and in other factors have played little role in this relative decline …. This analysis also finds a significant return to English skills. Even after controlling for education, region of origin …

investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …

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 …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U …

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is … Community Survey (ACS). In contrast to the official definition of self-employment which simply counts the numbers of … unincorporated self-employed, we also include the incorporated self-employed who are paid wages and salaries. The paper presents …

business operations and employment, changes in financing patterns, and the interaction of household and business …

employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger firms, to set up a natural experiment research design. We find …, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …