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"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
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The current expansion has delivered the lowest unemployment rates in decades, yet nominal wage growth has remained … relatively contained. This suggests to some a shift in the historical relationship between unemployment and wage growth. We look … real wage growth with respect to unemployment has fallen recently, a result that is not due to a compositional shift toward …
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This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously generating matching functions for skilled …
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on the basis of the falling unemployment rate. Moreover, examining the relationship between measures of displacement and …
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unemployment. Juhn, Murphy, and Topel (2002) point out that the low unemployment rates for men in the 1990s were accompanied by … historically high rates of non-employment suggesting that the 1990s economy was not as strong as the unemployment rate might … increase in women's labor force participation more than offsets the decline for men, and low unemployment rates in the 1990s …
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We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....
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We examine the key components that determine an individual's early career wage growth and how these factors have changed for less skilled workers over the last twenty years. In particular, we examine the relative importance of accumulating work experience as compared to the quality of job...
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Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. However, this conclusion is largely based on data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time. This paper examines the connection between long-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality....
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-37. In this time period, real wages were countercyclical, and productivity and fiscal policy were procyclical. We use the … neoclassical growth model to investigate how much these factors contribute to the Depression. We find that real wages, which were …
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