I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …) that reduces the wages of native workers. Specifically, the indication was that the proportion of immigrant workers (p) is …

. Individuals also revise their expectations about outside offers upward, anchoring their beliefs to Foxconn's announced wages. They …

. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …

effects to control for unobserved factors influencing wages and tenure. This bias stems from the co-movement of average wages …

1988 - 2011. The baseline estimate of a 0.4 % increase in wages in response to a one percentage point decline in the … the net present value of wages in new matches - the relevant piece of information for firms posting vacancies, but a … rarely available measure - and find that it is well approximated by the cyclicality of wages for newly-hired workers. …

reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models … provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …