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Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies … have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects … of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from …
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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 analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...
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the impact of obesity on wages (Cawley 2004), using body mass index (BMI) as the continuous group variable. The results … suggest that body weight does have a negative impact on wages for white women, but the impact decreases for higher BMI levels …
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