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Do employers provide insurance against low frequency shocks? Industry employment and industry wages

Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2005

between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … repeated cross-sectional data. The results imply that supply curves facing industries are elastic but upward sloping. …

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Organizational flexibility and employment dynamics at young and old plants

Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Fisher, Jonas D.M. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998

There are significant differences in the dynamics of employment over the business cycle between young and old manufacturing plants. Young plants are more sensitive to aggregate disturbances, and they respond to them along different margins. We interpret these differences as reflecting greater...

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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar

Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … overall external orientation. Industries with low price-over-cost markups and those with a less skilled workforce exhibit …

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Has structural change contributed to a jobless recovery?

Groshen, Erica L.; Potter, Simon - In: Current Issues in Economics and Finance 9 (2003) Aug

some industries to others - may help explain the stalled growth in jobs. …

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Business Strategy and Top Management Compensation: The Mediating Effects of Employment Risk, Firm Performance and Size

Veliyath, Rajaram; Ferris, Stephen P.; Ramaswamy, Kannan - 1994

We compare top management compensation among prospector, defender, and analyzer strategic types, and the effects of differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top management group more than did analyzers. They were...

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Family structure and sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes

Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - 2001

Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...

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Which industries are the best employers for women? An application of a new Equal Employment Opportunity Index

Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie - 2003

industries with very good and very poor outcomes highlights the importance of addressing "special causes" of industry performance …

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Technology and job retention among young adults, 1980-98

Zavodny, Madeline - 2000

worker remains at the same job for two years and various measures of technology usage across industries. Using data from the …

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Does immigration affect wages? A look at occupation-level evidence

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2003

Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill...

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Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice

Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002

This paper controls for the selection bias associated with occupational choice and the labor force participation decision in estimating the wage penalty for working in female-dominated occupations. Using data from the May 1979 and the April 1993 supplements to the Current Population Survey, the...

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