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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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bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to … individual bargaining power, such as under a collective bargaining agreement or in markets with posted wages, greater … transparency has a muted impact on average wages. We test these predictions by evaluating the roll-out of U.S. state legislation …
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-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages …
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The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …
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Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …
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This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits … bonus of extra output as a result of a uniquely vertical European aggregate supply curve. The analysis of real wages also …
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a wage equation. I reach the following two main conclusions: Nominal wages adjust faster to prices than prices do to … nominal wages. This may be taken as evidence that price inertia is more important empirically than nominal wage inertia. The …
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Has economic progress increased the relative earnings of females to males over the long run? Evidence on trends in the earnings gap for the last four decades appears to run counter to this hypothesis. Numerous data sources are used in this paper to piece together a 170-year history of the...
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reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …
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