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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008

closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS). In this paper, we take advantage of many more …

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Labor market transitions and self-employment

Rissman, Ellen R. - 2007

The self-employed are a heterogeneous group. Some are self-employed because they are good at it, while others are self-employed because they cannot find a better paying salaried job. Data from the CPS for prime age males show that workers are almost twice as likely to enter self-employment from...

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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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Displacement, asymmetric information, and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2007

closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS). In this paper, we take advantage of many more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287992

Local market scale and the pattern of job changes among young men

Wheeler, Christopher H. - 2006

using a sample of young male workers drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort. The results uncover …

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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts

Tyler, John H. - 2002

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...

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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006

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The independent contractor workforce: New evidence on its size and composition and ways to improve its measurement in household surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and …-employed independent contractors speak about their work. Based on these findings, we designed and fielded a large-scale telephone survey to … employees in conventional household survey data and those who are independent contractors in a secondary work activity. We find …

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What are the consequences of an amnesty for undocumented immigrants?

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2004

The United States has not created a major amnesty program that would allow undocumented immigrants to legalize their status since 1986. As the number of undocumented immigrants has surged in recent decades, momentum for a new amnesty program has gained ground. This paper discusses the current...

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