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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2009
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...
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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2009
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
Borjas, George J. - 2003
Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014
to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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Tax Reform and Adjustment Costs : The Impact on Investment and Market Value
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1986
This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and market value. Unlike earlier measures, the effective tax rate derived is valid in the presence of adjustment costs and anticipated tax changes. The derived measure of the impact...
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Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing
Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1999
This paper accounts for quality improvements and adjustment costs in all inputs to U.S. manufacturing production. Adjustment processes for non-capital inputs are slower than previously recognized. Annual adjustment percentages are: labor 77, capital 30, energy 20, and materials 21. Factor prices...
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Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level : Sources and Productivity Implications
Cooper, Russell W.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Willis, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies competing sources of declining dynamism. Evidence shows that an important component of this decline is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level dynamic optimization problem as a framework for analysis,...
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Nonlinear Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies? Evidence from U.S. Data
Blanco, Andres; Boar, Corina; Jones, Callum; Midrigan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We show that standard menu cost models cannot simultaneously reproduce the dispersion in the size of micro-price changes and the extent to which the fraction of price changes increases with inflation in the U.S. time-series. Though the Golosov and Lucas (2007) model generates fluctuations in the...
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Foreign-Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
There has been little analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on U.S. wage inequality, even though the presence of foreign-owned affiliates in the United States has arguably grown more rapidly in significance for the U.S. economy than trade flows. Using data across U.S....
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Patterns of Skill Premia
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
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