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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Job Flows

Krause, M.U. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

The paper explores the relationship between job flows and wages in the U.S. manufacturing sector, where wage differentials for seemingly identical workers and job reallocation rates are shown to be negatively correlated across 3-digit industries.High wage industries have the lowest turnover of...

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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market : A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

van soest, arthur; Gong, X.; Villagomez, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey, a quarterly … household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid economic growth …

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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...

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An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

Guvenen, Fatih - EconWPA - 2005

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Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in Competitive Experimental Markets

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Riedl, Arno - EconWPA - 2003

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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003

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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - EconWPA - 2003

Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers’ underbidding by lowering wages? We hypothesize that under conditions of incomplete labor contracts wage levels may positively affect workers’ propensity to cooperate. This, in...

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Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycle Comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...

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International Rent Sharing and Domestic Labor Markets: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2003

Foreign-owned firms account for a significant part of output in many industrialized countries. However, compared to international trade linkages, relatively little is known about the role of foreign direct investment linkages and multinational firm behavior in the transmission of disturbances...

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Age, Wage and Productivity

van Ours, Jan; Stoeldraijer, L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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