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Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives … increase in the fraction of workers in an occupation group who are foreign born tends to lower the wages of low-skilled natives …
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. Critics of the H-1B program contend that it reduces job opportunities and wages for native workers. The programs' supporters … whether the H-1B visa program negatively affects IT workers' wages. The author uses data on labor condition applications (LCAs … number of IT workers in that area, is negatively associated with the level of and change in average IT wages and the …
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determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …
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determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …
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heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …-specific error components in wages and hours. …
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A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a …
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A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller …
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Labor costs have recently come under scrutiny by policymakers, business economists, and financial market participants. The primary concern has been that tight labor markets might lead to faster compensation growth and, ultimately, to upward pressure on general inflation. The employment cost...
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We calibrate a model of labor demand to infer the employment response to a change in the minimum wage in the food away from home industry. Assuming a perfectly competitive labor market, the model predicts a 2.5 to 3.5 percent fall in employment in response to a 10 percent minimum wage change. We...
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …
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