This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also … birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of … analyzes the impact of earnings on mothers' consumption of prenatal medical care, and their propensity to smoke and drink …

robotics should shape our thinking about the likely trajectory of occupational change and employment growth. A key observation …

-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the … gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … specific measures of skill-biased technological change, which are then used as instruments for unskilled workers' earnings in …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage on an individual's employment status. We find that movements in both French and American real … minimum wages are associated with mild employment effects in general and very strong effects on workers employed at the …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate … the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-…-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition … employment effects in general, and very strong effects on workers employed at the minimum wage. In the French case, albeit …