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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
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Informality, education-occupation mismatch, and wages : evidence from India
Bahl, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2023
This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …
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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia : reconciling conflicting results
Lebow, Jeremy - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49
are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …
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The effect of payroll taxes on employment and wages under high labor informality
Antón Sarabia, Arturo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
informality. For that purpose, the paper examines a recently approved tax reform in Colombia especially targeted to promote labor …
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Wages and Labor Market Slack : Making the Dual Mandate Operational
Blanchflower, David G. - 2014
In this paper we examine the impact of rises in inactivity on wages in the US economy and find evidence of a statistically significant negative effect. These nonparticipants exert additional downward pressure on wages over and above the impact of the unemployment rate itself. This pattern holds...
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Homeownership, labour market transitions and earnings
Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2018
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the literature. Our analysis is cast within a dynamic setting and the endogeneity of each outcome is assessed through the estimation of a flexible panel multivariate model with random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949387
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Employment Time and the Cyclicality of Earnings Growth
Hoffmann, Eran - 2017
We study how idiosyncratic earnings risk evolves over the business cycle in Italy and in the US. We distinguish between two sources of risk to annual earnings growth: changes in employment time (number of weeks of employment within a year) and changes in weekly earnings. Shocks to employment...
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What Happened to Wage and Non-Employment Structures During the 'Dutch Employment Miracle'?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2004
The Netherlands have experienced an employment miracle since the 1980s. This note investigates what happened to the wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates decreased markedly. Surprisingly, I find no significant...
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