risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and …

indices and synthetic mobility measures for moving in-and-out of the obese group. The results clearly show that obesity is a …

97) for the US, we test whether residual wage gaps (once observed differences in productivity related to obesity are …

Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant …

Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains …

immigrant labor supply shock on native competitors. -- labor market effects of immigration ; skill groups ; wage elasticity …

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is … find that glass ceilings exist for some immigrant groups, and that they are driven in large measure by glass doors. For … some immigrant groups, the sorting of these workers across firms accounts for as much as half of the economy-wide wage …