We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

percent of the variance in log wages for migrants with a given number of years of schooling is due to differences within …