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occupational licensing can raise the wages of members of both occupations, but the duration of state occupational licensing …
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This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced …
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The occupational structure of an establishment provides a description of its production process by detailing the distribution and relative intensity of tasks performed. In this paper, I investigate whether there are substantive differences in the occupational structures of low- and high-wage...
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We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … increase in OAS technology usages reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and increases wages for … college graduates in OAS jobs by over 3 percent. We find negative wage spillovers, with wages falling for both workers with no …
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estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a worker's secondary job to assess the degree of … higher wages, but not higher separation rates. In contrast, for workers in the lowest wage quartile, wage increases in the … primary job do not respond to wages in the secondary job, but hours and separations in the secondary job are sensitive to …
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We study how salary history disclosures affect employer demand, and how salary history bans shape hiring and wages. We …
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unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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Hispanic women earn higher hourly wages than white women with similar observable characteristics. This estimated wage premium … statistically significant difference in wages between Hispanic and white women in the NLSY97. …
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We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...
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