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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
that dentists in those states have lower earnings and slower employment growth. Several sensitivity and falsification tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727871
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109524
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Wage Dispersion and Technical Progress
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Aizenman, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
Since the early 1980s, wage dispersion and the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment have increased significantly in … paper studies the wage and employment effects of technological changes of this type. The analysis is based on a model with a … constant at initial wages. Such a shock reduces total employment in the primary sector, as the equilibrium increase in skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580740
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
Autor, David; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
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Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market
Tyler, John H.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We estimate the post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based General Educational Development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714112
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A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages
Katz, Lawrence F.; Loveman, Gary W.; Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and...
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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
Nyarko, Yaw; Naidu, Suresh; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890112
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
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Equilibrium Labor Turnover, Firm Growth and Unemployment
Mortensen, Dale T.; Coles, Melvyn G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper considers a dynamic, non-steady state environment in which wage dispersion exists and evolves in response to shocks. Workers do not observe firm productivity and firms do not commit to future wages, but there is on-the-job search for higher paying jobs. The model allows for firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227929
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from the US
Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan; Dickens, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present … employment, but which also allows for the possibility of a neutral or a positive effect. The model structure is based on labour … economic wisdom but in line with several recent studies, do not have a negative impact on employment. If anything, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714064