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Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...
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Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills : Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data
Mairesse, Jacques - 2001
The main objective of the study is descriptive. We set out to explore the (cor)relations between five IT and R&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of French manufacturing and services firms over the two...
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 1996
, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E. - 1991
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations … conclude that technological change, mediated through techies, is an important cause of polarization in France. Firm-level trade …
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? : some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-ching - 2005
"This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labor. Our analysis...
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Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation
Mincer, Jacob - 2000
We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same pattern as skill differentials in wages: They widen...
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
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Gender Differences in Pay
Blau, Francine D. - 2000
We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in qualifications and discrimination, and overall wage structure, the rewards for skills and employment in particular sectors, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining...
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