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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie - 1999
general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore …
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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables … measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees per firm are subject to very important sampling errors, they can be …) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
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The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
Araújo, Aloisio Pessoa de; Ferreira, Rafael; Lagaras, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Judicial decisions in bankruptcy are often influenced by the goal to preserve employment in financially distressed firms. What are the effects of these pro-labor decisions on workers' earnings and employment trajectories? We construct a new court-level measure of pro-labor bias based on the text...
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Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
Bilal, Adrien; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study this equity-efficiency trade-off, we contribute a framework in which firms either hire many imperfectly substitutable worker types in-house by posting wages along a job ladder,...
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Voting on a Trade Agreement : Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness
Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
via input-output linkages, significantly influences the voting behavior of its employees. This effect is greater for …
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Stubborn Beliefs in Search Equilibrium
Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I study a search equilibrium model of the labor market in which workers have stubborn beliefs about their labor market prospects, i.e. beliefs about their probability of finding a job and the wage they will earn that do not respond to aggregate fluctuations in fundamentals. I show that, when...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in …
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