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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. and in Japan

Mincer, Jacob - 1987

The starting point of this study is the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also...

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Relative Wage Variability in the United States, 1860-1983

Allen, Steven G. - 1987

This paper examines the magnitude of changes in relative wages across industries between 1860 and 1983 and analyzes the macroeconomic determinants of such changes at different intervals during this period. The variance across industries in wage growth was at least four times larger before 1948...

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Comparable Worth in a General Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Economy

Beider, Perry C. - 1986

This paper presents a computable general equilibrium model that simulates the effects on employment, output, wages, and … on aggregate employment, output, and efficiency would be much larger than if the employment constraint is based on …

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Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment? : The U.S. Experience

Bell, Linda A. - 1985

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …

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Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : An Historical Analysis

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1985

Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...

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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization : The American Case, 1820-1850

Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1981

The American Northeast industrialized rapidly from about 1820 to 1850, while the South remained agricultural. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of the manufacturing work force in 1832. Wherever...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...

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Changes in Black-White Inequality : Evidence from the Boll Weevil

Clay, Karen - 2020

This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on black-white inequality in the first half of the twentieth century. To do this we use complete count census data to generate a linked sample of fathers and their sons. We find that the boll weevil...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...

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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

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