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 …

. 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 …

Immigrants have become a lightning rod for the resentment of native-born taxpayers who disapprove of extra spending on …

Employers strapped for labor have turned to immigrants to fill jobs spurned by many natives …

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 …

We analyze how bankruptcy laws affect the general equilibrium interactions between credit and wages. Soft laws reduce … agents, soft laws lower wages, which increases the pledgeable income of richer agents and decreases the liquidation rates …

I use panel data to examine whether long-term changes in industry wages are positively related to long-term changes in … between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … less skilled individuals in a manner that biases down the estimated relationship between industry employment and wages in …

A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a …

A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller …

In this paper we use micro panel data to examine the effects of oil price shocks on employment and real wages, at the … the basis of skill level. We find that oil price increases result in a substantial decline in real wages for all workers … substantial changes in employment shares and relative wages across industries. However, we find little evidence that oil price …