a minimum of three markets: land, labor and capital. I study the interaction between the land and the labor markets … left essentially unchanged.I refute this argument on the grounds that it does not hold in a model with a full labor market …. First, I consider the wage gradient approach, where labor demand is infinitely elastic. Next, I look at the case where labor …

This study addresses the impact of Mexican illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market. It constitutes a first step … towards developing rigorous structural econometric models that empirically analyze undocumented labor force dynamics …. Structural estimation of the labor supply and the participation decision of illegal Mexican immigration requires the solution of …

the distributor industry may increase distributors' bargaining power vis-a-vis producers and thereby reduce incentives for … producers to enter the upstream industry.The third essay investigates the effects of coalition formation across two bilateral … the effects of industry unions and employers' associations in a duopolistic industry. Using an "efficient bargaining …

quality of available rental housing. A model of the labor market is presented in which the same kind of adjustment can take …

affecting the opportunity cost of labor. Our results indicate that the strategy of intervention matters. We show that third …

-domain techniques can provide. There are three major questions I pursue. The first is why equilibrium search models of labor market … Granger causality test. Finally, the third question I address investigates the connections between labor productivity growth …

partial equilibrium industry model with heterogeneous establishments and aggregate uncertainty shows that the EAS lowers labor …The dissertation offers an analysis of the labor reallocation process in Japan and sheds light on its relationship with … during this period, mainly through exits by relatively productive firms.The second chapter investigates the labor input and …