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This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other …
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describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …
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recruiting workers is proportional to firm employment, we establish the existence of an equilibrium solution to the model in …, the distribution of workers over firms, is large in the general case, it reduces to a scalar that can be interpreted as …
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We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
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A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, we analyze how equal wages affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by...
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Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We analyze individuals’ earnings in 31 … different data sets from sixteen countries, from which we obtain a total of 360 wage change distributions. We find a remarkable … amount of variation in wage changes across workers. Wage changes have a notably non-normal distribution; they are tightly …
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We study how different payment modes influence the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract enforcement device. In particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one...
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In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such...
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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …
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thresholds in an attempt to control data quality. We analyse the case of England for 2000 when response rates were deemed high … the slightly higher response rates in 2000 were associated with higher quality data. This underlines the danger of using … response rate thresholds as a guide to data quality. …
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