Subsidizing low-skilled jobs in a dual labor market

Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work

Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables f...

Subsidizing Extra Jobs

directed the Chair of Public Economics, for giving me the opportunity to pursue my research interests and for his encouragement and support throughout the project. Without his academic guidance, his soft, but determined pressure for results and his enthusiasm to prove that economic theory can make a difference to economic policymaking, this dissertation would never have been completed. Wehke – ...

Dual Labor Markets: A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation

Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled native-born and legal immigrant workers in Arizona. We use the synthet...

The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market

We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and 2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that polarization stems from the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over specialization, and the falling cost of automating routine, codifiable job tasks. Applying a spatial equilibrium model, we co...