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counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …
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This Paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: they pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become …
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for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …
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: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general …-equilibrium model with endogenous productivity growth. For real wage growth above laissez-faire levels, we obtain steady … equality of wage growth and productivity growth is a condition for constant employment. …
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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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likely to be self-employed than employed as a wage earner. Furthermore, these recent EU8 immigrants earn less conditional on …
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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