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We use data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program to study the causal effects of location on earnings. Starting from a model with employer and employee fixed effects, we estimate the average earnings premiums associated with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and...
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newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
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We revisit the estimation of industry wage differentials using linked employer-employee data from the U.S. LEHD program. Building on recent advances in the measurement of employer wage premiums, we define the industry wage effect as the employment-weighted average workplace premium in that...
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countries. The empirical analysis shows that differences in the U.S. earnings of immigrants with the same measured skills, but …
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lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop …
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document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered disparate … legal immigrants …
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This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state … 14 percent of native households. The types of benefits received by earlier immigrants influence the types of benefits … received by newly arrived immigrants. Hence there might be ethnic networks which transmit information about the availability of …
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We use detailed location information from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database to develop new evidence on the effects of spatial mismatch on the relative earnings of Black workers in large US cities. We classify workplaces by the size of the pay premiums they offer in a...
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This paper analyzes the link between ethnicity and the choice of residing in ethnically segregated neighborhoods. Data drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth show that there exist strong human capital externalities both within and across ethnic groups. As a result, the segregation...
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A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school districts, local decision-makers overwhelmingly favored white...
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