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Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause--a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms--also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and...

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Pushing the Envelope : The Effects of Salary Negotiations

Cullen, Zoë B.; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak; Perez-Truglia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

information frictions. We find that a light-touch encouragement intervention significantly increased both negotiation attempts and …

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Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science

Bertolotti, Fabio; Myers, Kyle R.; Tham, Wei Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We develop a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable, and we use it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science. Our model of researchers' labor supply shows that their willingness to pay for their...

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Wealth Inequality, Labor Market Arrangements and the Secular Decline in the Real Interest Rate

Donaldson, John B.; Kim, Hyung Seok; Mehra, Rajnish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We develop a dynamic macroeconomic model in which the secular decline in real interest rates arises endogenously from rising wealth inequality. Challenging the standard "safe asset shortage" hypothesis, the model shows how falling real rates can coexist with a stable safe asset ratio--closely...

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The Impact of a Child with Down Syndrome

Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We characterize the causal impact of having a child with Down syndrome relative to having one without Down syndrome using event studies around birth and population-wide Swedish administrative data from 1990 to 2019. The incremental effect of having a child with Down syndrome is to increase the...

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Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Beauregard, Pierre-Loup; Lemieux, Thomas; Messacar, Derek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use Canadian matched employer-employee data to assess the sources of the union pay premium. After controlling for worker heterogeneity using the Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999) (AKM) two-way fixed effects approach, we find that unionized firms pay about 15 log points more than...

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Union Bargaining Power and the Amenity-Wage Tradeoff

Lagos, Lorenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper studies how collective bargaining affects both wages and amenities. By merging collective bargaining … estimate the effects of union bargaining power. Strengthening unions raises wages and amenities without reducing employment …

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Non-Wage Amenities

Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This chapter reviews the analysis of non-wage amenities in the workplace. The competitive model is the point of departure, but the emphasis is on models of imperfect competition that have greater empirical relevance. In addition to the traditional hedonic model for estimating preferences over...

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Allocative and Remitted Wages : New Facts and Challenges for Keynesian Models

Basu, Susanto - 2016

difference between allocative wages and remitted wages. Using both individual-level and aggregate data, we study and extend the … available evidence on the cyclicality of wages and we pay particular attention to the response of wages to identified monetary … noticeable role in cyclical compensation patterns; (ii) empirically, both the wages for newly hired workers and the "user cost of …

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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 …

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