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reflects the congestion externalities predicted by the search literature. Also, holding wages constant, an increase in the …
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implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …
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log labor earnings. These restrictions permit estimation of the unobservable ability and productivity differences between … estimation is performed on matched employer-employee data from the LEHD program of the U.S. Census Bureau. The estimated …
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strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …
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Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …
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In this paper I try to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for U.S. labor in recent years. The empirial work yields three main results. First, from 1960 through 1990 demand for U.S. production labor became more elastic in manufacturing...
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employment fluctuations in response to demand shocks by more than 10 to 20 percent compared to completely rigid wages …
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group …
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Using linked employer-employee data for the U.S., we examine whether shocks to firm revenues are transmitted to the earnings of continuing employees. While full insurance is rejected, the elasticity of worker earnings with respect to persistent shocks in firm revenues is small and consistent...
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