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Freeman, Richard B. - 1978

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …

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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...

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Risk and the CEO Market : Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs?

Edmans, Alex - 2010

This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and heterogeneous moral hazard. Each of the three outcomes can be summarized by a single closed-form equation. In assignment models without moral hazard, allocation depends only on firm size...

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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2009

We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … identification strategies used, critically assess strengths and weaknesses, discuss connections with theory, and draw out potential …

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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility

Krishna, Pravin - 2011

increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …, non-random labor market allocation mechanisms, in determining the effects of trade policy changes on wages …

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Bargaining Power in Marriage : Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

Pollak, Robert A. - 2005

What determines bargaining power in marriage? This paper argues that wage rates, not earnings, determine well-being at the threat point and, hence, determine bargaining power. Observed earnings at the bargaining equilibrium may differ from earnings at the threat point because hours allocated to...

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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gosling, Amanda - 2001

This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...

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The Changing Skill Content of Private Sector Union Coverage

Dodini, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Concurrent with the precipitous decline in private sector unionization over the past half century, there has been a shift in the type of work covered by unions. We take a skill-based approach to studying this shift, using data from the Current Population Survey combined with occupation-specific...

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