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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I … wages. IV estimates suggest that OLS results are a lower bound for the (partial) causal effect. Thus, if confounding demand …
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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate. …
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compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a … simple model that incorporates both STI risk and pregnancy risk. I empirically test this using a rich panel dataset of 19 … regressions and find that compensating differentials for STI risk and pregnancy risk are sources of the price premium for …
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pregnancy and life satisfaction for women of childbearing age. The results show strong differences by race. Pregnancy has the … characteristics. There is evidence that racial differences in the effects of pregnancy on emotional and social support from others can …
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Almost 80 years after the big crash in USA and a new, bigger and more important crisis has appeared in the globalized economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment, living conditions. One of the states largely affected...
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in preparation of marriage. Whilst in service, adolescents could save part of their wages. As most of them worked in …
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volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …
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wages increase. I test my model’s predictions using the personnel records from a large US firm from 1970-1988. I find a …
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