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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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wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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employment and higher wages, especially for low-wage workers such as female, unskilled, younger, and non-permanently insured …
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effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the … and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage …
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We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
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wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby … cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical …
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In addition to realized earnings and employment shocks, forward-looking individuals are presumed to condition their … perceptions of earnings and employment risks using rich monthly panel data. It documents considerable individual heterogeneity in … expected earnings growth and earnings growth uncertainty and in the perceived likelihood of a voluntary and involuntary job …
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How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
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