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undocumented immigrants. These laws also increase hourly wages among likely undocumented mothers, which may increase their …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher...
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Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...
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High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
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, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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