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The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: <p> •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data <p> •the...</p></p>
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factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … wages are treated as downward rigid. The analysis remains valid when firms experience constant returns to labour in the … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of …
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performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis …
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depressing effect on their relative wages through world goods prices. In contrast, in the Heckscher-Ohlin model with small open … economies, the skill-bias of local technological changes do not affect wages. Thus, pervasiveness deals with a major criticism … employed despite rising or stable relative wages. Second, increases in demand for skills were concentrated in the same …
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Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically … individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign … negative effect on wages. …
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employees and pay full-time wages with the risk of over- and under-capacity or hiring professionals temporarily in the free …
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, such as annual salary, age, occupation, industry and frim size, there is also more unusual information about level of …
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Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of … distribution and their evolution over time to the structure of relative wages between and within industries. The empirical results …
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This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
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Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm’s...
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