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The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well … the wage bill share and relative wages of skilled labor. This finding is contrary to the commonly held view that …
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Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are … further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers have significantly lower labor supply elasticity, likely as a result …
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Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...
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This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
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This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457023
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content for general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788917