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Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers

Haltiwanger, John - 2000

empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages …

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What's Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E. - 2000

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … establishments. When we examine the determinants of wages within these establishments, we find that re-engineering a workplace to … incorporate more high performance practices leads to higher wages. However, increasing the usage of profit sharing or stock …

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What is Driving US and Canadian Wages : Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

Beaudry, Paul - 1998

This paper proposes a new and unified explanation for the following trends observed over the last 25 years: (1) the increased returns to education, (2) the slow measured growth in TFP in an economy undergoing massive changes in its methods of production, and (3) the poor wage performance,...

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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The Economic Progress of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1998

country characteristics that lead to high wages at the time of entry also lead to faster wage growth …

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The Determinants of Child Care Workers' Wages and Compensation : Sectoral Differences, Human Capital, Race, Insiders and Outsiders

Mocan, H. Naci - 1997

This paper investigates the determinants of wages and compensation in child care centers for teachers and aides …. Nonprofit status has no across-the-board impact on wages. The extent of the wage premium enjoyed by some nonprofit workers … and zero for aides. An additional year of general education brings about a 5 percent increase in teacher wages, and half …

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Exceptional Exporter Performance : Cause, Effect, or Both?

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1997

A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics" of exporting plants and firms relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This paper asks whether good" firms become exporters or...

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Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1997

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a …

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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

Beaudry, Paul - 1997

This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...

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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

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