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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but wage rigidities in continental Europe ('Krugman hypothesis …
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immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …
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, female labor. Wage growth over the next 20 years will continue to favor college educated workers and in particular college …
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Using detailed IRS administrative data on millions of households, we find that households effectively insure against much of the risk facing primary earners. We show that households face less risk than males alone, and households face roughly half the countercyclical risk increase. As a result...
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Since the global financial crisis, US wage growth has been sluggish. Drawing on individual earnings data from the 2000 … workers - slowed down real wage growth. There are, however, also signs of structural changes in the labor market affecting … wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve - the empirical relationship between wage growth and …
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This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The … average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than it rises in the case of growing plants. Moreover, the average wage …
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as measured by standard indices of the skill-intensity of employment. This is significant since most of the impact of … little unambiguous evidence of a close link between computerization and relative wage change. Nor do we find that the … overall rate; measures of wage rigidity are not closely correlated with unemployment problems; and no clear empirical link has …
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voluntary or involuntary. In addition, they look at the decline in the median wage. Using data from the March Consumer … Population Survey on full-time, full-year (FTFY) employment among males for the years 1967-1992, the authors reported actual …
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proportion of the changes in the college wage premium, can be explained by the relative cohort size variables alone. Even changes … wage levels have been strongly affected by these demographic changes, suggesting that population growth can have positive …
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