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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …
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In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific human capital investment where … French data, we show that the minimum wage allows a high production level to be reached by inducing increased training … without removing the minimum wage legislation, we show that this policy has been welfare improving, and has been relatively …
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of … specifications of a difference-in-differences model to estimate the impact of multiple minimum wage laws in South Africa on …
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faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who …
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Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The … innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers …
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positive employment and wage bill consequences of foreign ownership result from a substantial scale-expansion effect that …
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threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage …
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