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Cullen, Zoë B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

comparisons and caused employers to bargain more aggressively, lowering average wages. Other pay transparency policies, without …

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Seniority

Kang, Dongik; Kimball, Miles S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

seniority evolves over the worker's tenure with the firm and how it affects wages, effort, monitoring intensity and separation …

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The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality

Finkelstein, Amy; McQuillan, Casey C.; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions creating a flat "head tax" per worker, independent of their earnings. This paper develops and calibrates a stylized model of the labor market to explore how this uniquely American...

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Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?

Blair, Peter Q.; Posmanick, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did...

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The Gender Pay Gap : Micro Sources and Macro Consequences

Morchio, Iacopo; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret these facts, we develop an equilibrium search model with endogenous firm pay, amenities, and hiring. We provide a...

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An Empirical Framework For Matching With Imperfect Competition

Chan, Mons; Kroft, Kory; Mattana, Elena; Mourifié, Ismael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper builds, identifies and estimates a model of the labor market that features strategic interactions in wage setting and two-sided heterogeneity in order to shed light on the sources of wage inequality. We provide a tractable characterization of the model equilibrium and demonstrate its...

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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

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Wages Around the World : Pay Across Occupations and Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … while rising markedly in countries moving from communism to free markets and in lower middle income countries. 2. Wages in …

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Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector

Ruhm, Christopher - 2000

are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …

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Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences : Exploiting a Natural Experiment

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we exploit the fact that a substantial...

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