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U.S. labor market dynamics revisited
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies have yielded contradictory findings and debates have emerged regarding their implications. This paper aims at clarifying the picture, which is important for the understanding of the operation of the labor market, for the...
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Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias; Willman, P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...
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Employee stock purchase plans – gift or incentive? evidence from a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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The comparative advantage of non-union voice in Britain, 1980-2004
Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Kretschmer, Tobias; Gomez, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This study explains this development by providing a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes. Voice is associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126699
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Has job polarization squeezed the middle class? Evidence from the allocation of talents
Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...
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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...
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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746201
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Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets
Bosch, Mariano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This reallocation between formal and informal jobs is large and occurs mainly because...
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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets. The Mexican experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071130
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Search frictions, real rigidities and inflation dynamics
Thomas, Carlos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The standard New Keynesian model suffers from the so-called .macro-micro pricing conflict: in order to match the dynamics of inflation implied by macroeconomic data, the model needs to assume an average duration of price contracts which is much longer than what is observed in micro data. Here I...
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