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Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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Careers and Wages in Family Firms : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Di Porto, Edoardo; Pagano, Marco; Pezone, Vincenzo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers. Differences in worker sorting account for half of the wage gap while …

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Firm Pay and Worker Search

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay...

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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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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation

Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...

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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...

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Online Job Posts Contain Very Little Wage Information

Batra, Honey; Michaud, Amanda; Mongey, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

a point wage. The majority (8%) feature a range of wages that are on average wide, spanning 28% of the midpoint (e …, posted wages are 40% higher than wages in BLS data in low-wage occupations and 20% lower than BLS data in high …-wage occupations. Fourth, among the wages that are posted, high wage firms are more opaque, with more and wider ranges. Fifth, there is …

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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC

Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation

Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...

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