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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

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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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality

Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020

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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Employment and reallocation effects of higher minimum wages

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023

worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity … the minimum wage cuts deep into the wage distribution. I show that gradually implementing a high minimum wage is necessary …

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we ﬁnd that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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Getting handcuffs on an octopus : minimum wages, employment, and turnover

Gittings, R. Kaj; Schmutte, Ian M. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 69 (2016) 5, pp. 1133-1170

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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates

Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016

We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...

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Evaluating workplace mandates with flows versus stocks : an application to California paid family leave

Curtis, E. Mark; Hirsch, Barry T.; Schroeder, Mary C. - 2014

Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset provides...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off : A Wage Posting Approach

Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2021

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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