Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W First Quarter 2002 T he fraction of the U.S. population composed of the foreign-born reached 11 percent in 2000, the highest in seventy years. The large number of immigrants in the United States has prompted concern about possible negative effects on labor market outcomes among natives. Such concerns are particularly widespread among l...

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on technology adoption and its e ect on wage inequalities. We develop a trade model with heterogeneous rms introducing a xed technology cost and di erent types of skilled labor. The contribution of this paper is to develop a possible explanation to the increase in the skill premium in developping countries. The traditional framework, H-O-S, ...

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...

This paper integrates the insight that exporting firms are typically more productive and employ higher skilled workers into a directed search model of the labor market. The model generates a skill premium as well as residual wage inequality among identical workers. A trade liberalization will cause a reallocation of workers both within and across industries. The within industry reallocation inc...

Despite macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms, employment problems have persisted in Latin America. The 1990s have seen a slowdown in the rate of job creation, unemployment rates have stagnated at about 10%; informal sector employment has expanded, and increases in real wages have been particularly favorable to skilled workers. The purpose of this article is to explain this apparen...

Does globalization affect the demand-side of politics, and if so, how? This paper builds on new developments in trade theory to argue that globalization matters, but that its effects on individuals’ perceptions of labor market risk and policy preferences are more heterogenous than previous research has acknowledged. Globalization exposure increases risk perceptions and demands for social protec...

Despite macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms, employment problems have persisted in Latin America. The 1990s have seen a slowdown in the rate of job creation, unemployment rates have stagnated at about 10%; informal sector employment has expanded, and increases in real wages have been particularly favorable to skilled workers. The purpose of this article is to explain this apparen...

Fairness considerations within the …rm are introduced into the determination of wages in a two factor Pissarides-style model of search unemployment to study its implications for the unemployment rates of unskilled and skilled workers in both the closed economy case and when the economy can o¤shore some inputs. While the e¤ect of a fair-wage constraint on unskilled workers takes the form of an i...

Neglected obstructed labor is a major cause of feto-maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries [1-3]. Labor is obstructed when the presenting part of the fetus cannot progress into the birth canal despite strong uterine contractions [4]. It becomes neglected obstructed labor when the obstruction is not relieved for several hours or days. Labor that is not supervised by skilled...