Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness This paper evaluates counselling programmes in an equilibrium matching model where workers are heterogeneous in skill levels. Job search effort, labour demand and wages are endogenous. When wages are bargained over, raising the effectiveness of or the access to counselling programmes pushes wages upwards a...

We investigate the effect of immigration on the labor supply of skilled native women. We present a simple time-use model that predicts that a reduction in the price of household services (such as child rearing, cooking or cleaning) should lead to an increase in the labor supply of skilled women with family responsibilities (such as caring for young children, elderly dependents, or a retired hus...

The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of immigrants on wages for natives with divergent skill level within one country. Skill level is measured as education level and the purpose is to focus on the level where it according to us is a lack in research, namely the effect on high skilled native-born worker wages. Further, our contribution to the already existing studies may be consider...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: J 31 O18 R23 Keywords: Unskilled migrants Remittance Skilled–unskilled wage inequality Labor host region The present paper establishes a two-sector general equilibrium model and conduct the comparative static approach to investigate the impact exerted by an increase in the remittance rate of the unskilled migrants on the skilled–unskilled wage inequalit...

Globalization and its impact on wage inequality between skilled-unskilled and male-female laborers have become a crucial research issue over the recent past. It is expected that with increased trade due to globalization developing countries will specialize in producing and exporting unskilled and/or female labor-intensive products and wage rates of unskilled and/or female labor will rise. The o...

1 Overall wage inequality and educational wage differentials have expanded substantially in the United States over the past two decades. This widening of the wage structure has coincided with the rapid computerization of the work place. Thus, it is not surprising that many labor market analysts have tried to draw a causal connection between rising earnings inequality and increases in growth rat...

Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Coauthorship within the United States Author(s): Richard B. Freeman and Wei Huang Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 33, No. S1, US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy (Part 2, July 2015), pp. S289-S318 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago St...