a r t i c l e i n f o JEL codes: J23 J3 J4 J5 D4 F66 Keywords: Labor demand Input heterogeneity Labor adjustment costs Wage and employment determination Multiple fixed effects Establishment-level functions At first blush, most advances in labor demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been ma...

We study the wage structure during economic transition in the context of Chinese cities and examine the effect of China’s urban housing reforms on the urban wage structure (1988-2005). We find that these reforms, which untied access to housing from state-sector employment, shifted approximately 17% of the labor force from the state sector to the private sector, increasing the private sector lab...

This paper examines the potential causes of the “ripple effect” of minimum wages. This wage spillover is thought to result from labor demand substitution: where the rising minimum increases the demand for more-skilled workers who become relatively inexpensive. However, the rising minimum also affects the relative wages across hedonically distinct occupations because it lowers compensating wage ...

Using a newly constructed data set on outward FDI from Germany, comprising both parent and affiliate panels for the period 1989-2001, this paper studies the location choice of German parents and consequences for labor demand across locations. Results indicate that large, relative skill abundant countires attract German FDI. Firms in skill-intensive industries seek skilled labor in their foreign...