This paper reexamines the empirical basis for two" facts" that seem to be found in most cross-
section studies of immigrant earnings:(1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they …

Employability is believed to be a crucial concept concerning employees' job security. This
study investigates whether factors associated with human capital and the dual labour market …

The labor market consists of two tiers. Workers in the upper tier enjoy high wages, good
benefits, and employment security, and they are often unionized. Workers in the lower tier …

La teoría de la segmentación del mercado de trabajo es un conjunto de enfoques teóricos
que han ido surgiendo desde finales de los años sesenta con el fin de explicar fenómenos …

Aggregate US labor market dynamics are well approximated by a dual labor market
supplemented with a third, predominantly, home-production segment. We uncover this …

This article reviews theoretical and empirical work in labor economics and the sociology of
work relating to the segmentation of the labor market into a primary and a secondary sector …

Evidence on wage cyclicality shows job changers have more procyclical wages than job
stayers. Previous work argued this arises because workers gain greater access to jobs in …

The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and
declining unemployment in the United States can be substantially explained by polarized …

In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest
social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment. Unemployment …

This article provides evidence that involuntary unemployment, and the segmentation of
labour markets into firms offering “good” and “bad” jobs, may both arise as a consequence of …