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Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and...
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, wages, and earnings within and across occupations …
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reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …
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Economic growth in Europe and Asia and Latin America could have contri- buted in many different ways to lower wages and … price reductions twist the labor demand curve, dictating lower real wages for unskilled workers who reside in communities … with abundant unskilled labor but raising the wages for unskilled workers who are fortunate to live in communities …
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and to declining real wages of less skilled males during the 1980s. We find that while the male wage declines are …
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The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group …
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Gendered discrimination based on age and disability is a pressing issue, because this discrimination can interfere with the goal of lengthening work lives, especially for older women. In the United States, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit...
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scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
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