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younger and older workers increases more in slower-growing, older, and larger firms and in firms with higher mean wages, where …
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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …
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comparisons and caused employers to bargain more aggressively, lowering average wages. Other pay transparency policies, without …
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Investment fund managers make asset allocation decisions on behalf of a significant segment of US households. To elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel dataset, which encompasses detailed information on the...
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This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor market in which a larger supply of older workers can...
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This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … with their relatively high wages raise the question of how they are successfully absorbed into the labor market. We present …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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in employment and earnings. Adult men had no gains, and their earnings barely changed even in areas with unemployment … rates below 4 percent. Youths have higher earnings and employment in low crime states and poorer labor market outcomes in …
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The employment and earnings effects of the minimum wage are estimated by parameterizing an hypothesized relationship … between underlying market employment and wage relationships versus observed wage and employment distributions in the presence … of a legislated minimum. If there had been no minimum during the 1973-78 period, we estimate that employment among out …
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