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, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas. …
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This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the...
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suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of … public services. A different set of policies must be used to increase the earnings of the inner city poor. These employment … poverty problem, any realistic policy to significantly reduce inner-city poverty through enhanced earnings will require tens …
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workers. This intervention into the labor market has direct and indirect earnings and employment consequences for both …
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data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and … total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per …
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magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that … includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers … similar firms. This evidence suggests that displaced workers' earnings losses result largely from the loss of some …
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differentials across education and age groups remained roughly stable, and there was no general widening of earnings differentials … within either education or age groups. German wage setting institutions tend to limit earnings differentials across groups of …Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to …
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, education, buying homes, and in general advancing themselves." The relative success of West Indians has been cast in economic …-defined black groups. He found that native-born blacks of West Indian parentage had earnings that were 8 to 11 percent higher than … the earnings of native-parentage blacks, and that native-born blacks of other foreign parentage had earnings that were 12 …
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