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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia

Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024

We document a slowdown in low-skilled immigration that began around the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with a subsequent rise in low-skilled wages, a decline in the skill premium, and labor shortages in service occupations. Falling returns to education also coincided...

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A semi-parametric approach to the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with continuous group variable and self-selection

Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2019

This paper describes the application of a semiparametric approach, known as a varying coefficients model (Hastie and Tibshirani 1993), to implement a Oaxaca-Blinder type of decomposition in the presence of self-selection into treatment groups for a continuum of comparison groups. The flexibility...

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Discrimination against migrants in Austria: An experimental study

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2015

results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration background, it is most pronounced for applicants with … an African, i.e. Nigerian, background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a battery of firm and job specific … explain the actual level of discrimination. Discrimination in Austria therefore seems to be a general phenomenon driven by …

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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

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Importing equality or exporting jobs? Competition and gender wage and employment differentials in US manufacturing

Kongar, Ebru - 2006

This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the...

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Even education and experience has its limits: Closing the wage gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...

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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008

In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...

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Elimination of gender-related employment disparities through statistical process control

Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2008

This paper proposes a novel approach that has the potential to hasten the eradication of gender disparities in employment. This approach relies upon the concept of statistical process control (SPC) to more systematically remedy disparate employment outcomes for women. SPC also serves as a new...

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about discrimination, whether and …

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Traditional excluding forces: A review of the quantitative literature on the economic situation of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and people living with disability

Gandelman, Néstor; Ñopo, Hugo; Ripani, Laura - 2007

markets in general, as well as informality, segregation and discrimination; iii) the transaction points of political …

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