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Is Pay Transparency Good?
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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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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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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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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Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium
Rey, Patrick; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
construct a general equilibrium model where workers' reservation wages and the maximum punishment acceptable before workers quit … an adverse signal, and establishing conditions under which equilibrium entails lowering wages (performance contracting …-strategy equilibrium. The economy is, in general, not efficient either in the selection of the form of equilibrium or the wages paid within …
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Labor Market Matching, Wages, and Amenities
Lamadon, Thibaut; Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper develops the nonparametric identification of models with production complementarities, worker-firm specific disutility of labor and search frictions. Mobility in the model is subject to preference shocks, and we assume that firms can write wage contracts. We develop a constructive...
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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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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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