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A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
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determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 …
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The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose …
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discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …
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We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...
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-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …
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It is well known in personnel economics that firms may improve the quality of their workforce by offering performance pay. We analyse an equilibrium model where worker productivity is private information and show that the gains to the firms from worker self-selection may not be matched by a...
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away from less easily contractible tasks such as long-term investments, risk management and within-firm cooperation. Under …
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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