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may be preferred to one with a high starting wage if the growth rate of wages is higher in the former than in the latter …
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this type of model results in more employment variability and less-procyclical wages than do models without fixed hiring …
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An analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of …
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fired or laid off choose jobs with wages that are higher than their previous jobs, a substantial proportion of these job … changers choose jobs that have lower wages. A model is constructed that is consistent with workers choosing a career path that … package. Due to compensating wage differentials, higher wages are paid where other job amenities are unattractive. Given this …
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declines in wages, productivity, output, and consumption, and can increase the wage disparity between skilled and unskilled …
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An examination of the effect of unions on the aggregate level of employment in the economy.
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The part-time employment rate has declined since the early 1980s, especially among females. This paper examines the decline over the 1980-1990 period, with a focus on the gender differential, using gross change data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monthly transition rates between full-time...
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We document sectoral differences in changes in output, hours worked, prices, and nominal wages in the United States …. One sector is assumed to have flexible nominal wages, while nominal wages in the other sector are set using Taylor …. Alternatively, if wages are set using Calvo-type contracts, the decline in output is even smaller. …
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Changes in the fraction of workers experiencing job separations can account for most of the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred both between, as well as within educational groups in the United States from the mid-1970s to the mid- 1980s. This is not true of changes in average earnings...
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