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, unemployment, wages, and hours worked. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and its Annual Social and Economic …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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employment and earnings gains are attributable to Hispanic immigrants, particularly immigrants not fluent in English. … evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 …
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employment and earnings gains are attributable to Hispanic immigrants, particularly immigrants not fluent in English. … evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287104
Using administrative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to the 2011 Census of England and Wales … employed in low-skilled occupations or temporary employment compared to observationally equivalent UK-born employees. However …
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Although the quantitative relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality is central for the dynamics … relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality at the establishment level. We use this micro-estimate as a …
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, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction …
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informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …
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