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In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality among workers in the labor market. A key focus is on the rise of U.S. wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we also pay attention to how Europe did not experience...
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This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds on the burgeoning literature relating trade and labour markets, taking into account theories of firm-level trade and previous empirical work. The analysis in the paper...
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In this Paper, I present direct micro-econometric evidence of the relation between individual wages of French workers …’ wages not only comes from movements in the quasi-rent induced by competitive pressures but also from alterations of workers … my results, I find a bargaining power below 0.20. I also show that workers’ wages deteriorate through competitive …
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We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work-force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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