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of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own 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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. Reservation wages are derived from an explicit utility function in which the most critical taste parameter is assumed to vary both … systematically and randomly across individuals. Market wages are derived from a standard wage equation adjusted to the special … market and reservation wages) and the incentives set up by private pension plans are estimated to be major causes of …
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In this study the social security earnings test is shown to have a significant effect empirically on the labor supply of retirement aged men. A rich data file from the Social Security Administration containing accurate benefit information provides a cross- section sample of 65-70 year old...
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-sectional distribution of usual weekly hours and hourly wages. First, usual weekly hours are heavily concentrated around 40 hours, while at … wages are non-monotonic across the usual hours distribution, with a peak for those working 50 hours. The novel feature of …
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of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and …
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We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...
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I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...
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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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This paper emphasizes the role of wage growth in shaping work incentives. It provides an analytical framework for labor supply in the presence of a return to labor market experience and aggregate productivity growth. A key finding of the theory is that there is an interaction between these two...
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