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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model

Alvarez, Fernando; Veracierto, Marcelo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper analyzes the effects of fixed-term contracts using a version of the Lucas and Prescott island model with undirected search. A fixed-term contract of length J is modeled as a tax on separations of workers with tenure higher than J . While in principle these policies require a very...

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A New Method of Estimating Potential Real GDP Growth: Implications for the Labor Market and the Debt/GDP Ratio

Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Forecasts for the two or three years after mid-2014 have converged on growth rates of real GDP in the range of 3.0 to 3.5 percent, a major stepwise increase from realized growth of 2.1 percent between mid-2009 and mid-2014. However, these forecasts are based on the demand for goods and services....

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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search

Lentz, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and off the job for employment opportunities similar to that of Lentz (2010) and Bagger and Lentz (2013). The worker determines the frequency by which employment opportunities arrive...

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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...

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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Freeman, Richard B.; Björklund, Anders - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after the downturn, but government safety net programs buttressed disposable income for those with low...

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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...

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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...

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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact … wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and … of assortative matching between workers and jobs due to complementarities between worker and job characteristics. We use …

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