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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks
McKenzie, David J.; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568988
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David - 2012
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of … migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries. They find a large significant elasticity … with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395327
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks
McKenzie, David J.; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 6 (2014) 2, pp. 49-75
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361800
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market: evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks
McKenzie, David J.; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - 2012
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant … numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP … shocks at destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536467
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David J. - 2012
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant … numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP … shocks at destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107220
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of … migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries. They find a large significant elasticity … with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975283
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - 2012
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of … migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries. They find a large significant elasticity … with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552146
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Labor market transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196492
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The labor market effects of immigration enforcement
East, Chloe N.; Luck, Philip; Mansour, Hani; … - 2018
This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of domestic workers. We use temporal and geographic variation in the introduction of Secure Communities (SC), a county-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849646
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Flexible work arrangements in low wage jobs: evidence from job vacancy data
Adams, Abi; Balgova, Maria; Qian, Matthias - 2020
vacancies. Job flexibility at low wages is more likely to be offered alongside a wage-contract that exposes workers to earnings … risk, while flexibility at higher wages and in more skilled occupations is more likely to be offered alongside a fixed … point increase in the proportion of flexible and non-salaried vacancies at low wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290719