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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar

Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … overall external orientation. Industries with low price-over-cost markups and those with a less skilled workforce exhibit …

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Has structural change contributed to a jobless recovery?

Groshen, Erica L.; Potter, Simon - In: Current Issues in Economics and Finance 9 (2003) Aug

some industries to others - may help explain the stalled growth in jobs. …

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Family structure and sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes

Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - 2001

Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...

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Which industries are the best employers for women? An application of a new Equal Employment Opportunity Index

Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie - 2003

industries with very good and very poor outcomes highlights the importance of addressing "special causes" of industry performance …

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Technology and job retention among young adults, 1980-98

Zavodny, Madeline - 2000

worker remains at the same job for two years and various measures of technology usage across industries. Using data from the …

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Does immigration affect wages? A look at occupation-level evidence

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2003

Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill...

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Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice

Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002

This paper controls for the selection bias associated with occupational choice and the labor force participation decision in estimating the wage penalty for working in female-dominated occupations. Using data from the May 1979 and the April 1993 supplements to the Current Population Survey, the...

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Race, wages, and assimilation among Cuban immigrants

Zavodny, Madeline - 2003

This study uses data from the 1980 and 1990 Census and the 1994-2000 Current Population Survey to examine the determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent less than whites, on average. Much of the racial wage...

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Gender differences in self-employment

Georgellis, Yannis; Wall, Howard J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2004

This paper examines the factors that influence transitions into self-employment, paying particular attention to gender differences. We find that: (i) men are more responsive to the wage differential between wage/salaried employment and self-employment; (ii) liquidity constraints are more...

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Procyclical real wages under nominal-wage contracts with productivity variations

Hoehn, James G. - In: Economic Review (1988) Q IV, pp. 11-23

A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a model that introduces productivity factors into nominal-wage contracts.

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