We analyse the reservation wages of firstand second-generation migrants, based on rich survey data of the unemployed in Germany. Our results confirm the hypothesis that reservation wages increase over migrant generations and over time, suggesting that the mobility benefit of immigration may be limited in time.

This survey serves as the ninth in a series of toxicology salary surveys conducted at 3-year intervals and beginning in 1988. An electronic survey instrument was distributed to 5919 individuals including members of the Society of Toxicology, American College of Toxicology, and 23 additional professional organizations. Question items inquired about gender, age, degree, years of experience, certi...

This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically European bargaining system |with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage |coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage °exibility? A unique data set on workers, ̄rms and collective bargaining contracts in the Portuguese economy is used to analyze the determinants of both the bargained wage and the ...

When individuals with the same preferences but different gross wages and non-labor incomes allocate time to leisure and labor and contribute to a pure public good, the order of contributors' utilities is a perfect inversion of the order of their gross wages. The same applies to contributors' net and gross wages when contributions are financed by income from labor. There are consequences regardi...

The role of migration in influencing convergence between regions at different levels of economic development is analyzed using the example of Germany following reunification, with particular reference to the impact of migration on wages. "Several ways of regional wage formation are investigated, among them a full employment wage mechanism as well as a fast regional convergence of wages which i...

Labor unions are an important economic and political force in South Africa. Inequality in wage rates is among the largest in the world in South Africa, with African and white workers receiving wages that differ by a factor of five. The complex role of unions in closing and creating this wage gap is assessed in this paper. Union membership among Africa male workers is shown to be associated in 1...

In a review of the evidence, the authors find that the ACA had minimal effect on employment, hours of work, and compensation. This brief provides critical perspective on the effects of reforms on labor markets for federal and state policymakers as they consider changing or repealing the law.

Though most of the literature in health insurance and the labor market assumes a tradeoff between employerprovided health insurance and wages, its empirical validity has not been established. Employing Current Population Survey 2004 data, this paper assesses the tradeoff hypothesis in a distributional analysis framework using stochastic dominance tests. In addition, it contributes to the previo...

This paper examines how returns to education are related to occupation choices. Specifically, I investigate the returns to attending a two-year college and a four-year college and how these returns to education differ from a blue-collar occupation to a white-collar occupation. To address the endogenous education and occupation choices, I use a finite mixture model. I show how the finite mixture...