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affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with … and wages suggest that cultural capital and individual job-related human capital act as substitutes in affecting …
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The U.S labor market experienced two dramatic developments over the past twenty years: a falling male-female pay gap and a rising level of wage inequality. This paper uses Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) data for 1975 and 1987 and Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1971 and...
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expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …
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spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …
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absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … with their relatively high wages raise the question of how they are successfully absorbed into the labor market. We present …-German difference in employment rates …
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We use Census of Population microdata for 1980 and 1990 to examine the labor supply and wages of immigrant husbands and … contrast, we find that, among immigrants to the United States, both husbands and wives work and earn less than comparable …, positive assimilation profiles in wages and labor supply and eventually overtake both the wages and the labor supply of …
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Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip … credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits - or minimum wages for restaurant workers - to … minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without earnings effects on those who …
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The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. What is … economists even summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from "it is now well …-established that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment," to "the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there …
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find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not …
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industry. We find that CCTC awards increase employment among workers residing in both high income and low income communities …
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