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Wages And Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating A Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to … the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688341

Wages and seniority when coworkers matter : estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the … workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are separately …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831775

Beauty and productivity in academic publishing

Bortnikova, Kseniya - 2023

limited since intellectual skills must play a key role. In this work, I document the beauty effect for economic scholars …

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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states

Holzer, Harry J. - 2012

To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...