. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality of workers. This process will increase the positive quality …

general equilibrium model proposes a mechanism that ties immigrant workers to high-productivity firms and shows how accounting … establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …

employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are … invariant to the minimum wage rate. If workers are risk averse and imprudent (which is the empirically likely case), then …

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …

-employee data to investigate the impact of trade diversion on labor market outcomes for workers employed by Mexican exporters. We … employment and higher wages, especially for low-wage workers such as female, unskilled, younger, and non-permanently insured …