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This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the economics of cross-border drug smuggling. Our results reveal that loads are generally quite large (median 30 kg), but with substantial variance within and across drug types. Males and females, as well as U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens are all...
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employment effects of broadband infrastructure roll-out and questions about who exactly are the winners and losers in the labor … wages. Understanding these complementary issues allows for policy conclusions that go beyond simply encouraging the …
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workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … associated positively with firm employment in advanced and emerging market economies, although the relationship is more uncertain … quantitatively small. Looking at the distributional impact, there is mixed evidence for a skill bias in wages related to increased …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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innovation in employment growth, skills demand, and the payment of higher wages. …This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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