This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor … on labor market outcomes. The results show that clustering makes it easier for workers to job hop among establishments … importance of geography in understanding labor market dynamics within industries.While the first chapter reveals striking …

accompany internal labor markets. Our model reduces the unexplained portion of the observed earnings gap between males and …

life-cycle framework. I also use a number of specifications of reduced form models for mortality, morbidity, and labor … labor supply, (b) allows the decisions to be made in a life-cycle framework, (c) is set in a stochastic environment, and (d … in the health status of the two groups disappears.I estimate five labor withdrawal models at two stages of the life …

a minimum of three markets: land, labor and capital. I study the interaction between the land and the labor markets … left essentially unchanged.I refute this argument on the grounds that it does not hold in a model with a full labor market …. First, I consider the wage gradient approach, where labor demand is infinitely elastic. Next, I look at the case where labor …

This study addresses the impact of Mexican illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market. It constitutes a first step … towards developing rigorous structural econometric models that empirically analyze undocumented labor force dynamics …. Structural estimation of the labor supply and the participation decision of illegal Mexican immigration requires the solution of …

gender biases. Central to their model is the development of a labor market variable (LMV) which is designed to be sensitive … evaluation data and archival labor market data were obtained for jobs from two organizations (Organizations A and B). The results …