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This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...
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An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to … heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods …
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estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …
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This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative effect. As has been referred in previous … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …
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We argue that rising supply of experience not only reduces experienced workers' relative wages but also their relative … structures a decade earlier. We find that aging substantially reduces experienced workers' relative wages and employment rates … might be more severe than previously recognized, as it reaches beyond wages …
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The large inflow of less-educated immigrants that the United States has received in recent decades can worsen or improve U.S. natives' labor market opportunities. Although there is a general consensus that low-skilled immigrants tend to hold "worse" jobs than U.S. natives, the impact of...
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