variable. Wage level, monitoring intensity and consequently the desired enforceable effort level are jointly determined by the …

for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …

one of the key insights from theory:effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …

-60.<P> Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers … characterized by the separation of ownership and control. In this paper we explore to what extent this affects the wage … trilateral ones where the firm is owned by a shareholder and controlled by a manager. The wage-effort relationship we observe is …

: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …