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Lazear, Edward; Liang, James; Wang, Hui - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires creativity and business acumen. Creativity may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Not only are older workers less innovative, but more significant is...

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Mobilizing Social Capital Through Employee Spinoffs

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Many founding teams of new firms form at a common employer. We model team formation and the entry of employee spinoffs by extending the Jovanovic (1979) theory of job matching and employer learning. In our social-capital model employees learn about their colleagues' characteristics at a faster...

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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies

Kunze, Astrid; Miller, Amalia R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job information for each worker, which enables us to...

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Institutions and Labor Reallocation

Bertola, Giuseppe; Rogerson, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Despite stringent dismissal restrictions in most European countries, rates of job creation and destruction are remarkably similar across European and North American labor markets. This paper shows that relative-wage compression is conducive to higher employer-initiated job turnover, and argues...

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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

Skans, Oskar Nordström; Edin, Per-Anders; HOLMLUND, BERTIL - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects...

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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 through a costly choice of search intensity, which is …

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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?

Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income … mandate manager wages were already in the public domain. This decline was largely accomplished through nominal pay cuts. The … these sets of cities. Wages were cut irrespective of whether or not they were out of line with (measured) fundamentals …

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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

similar wages experienced similar wage increases in firms of different sizes. Wages increases were larger for low …

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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...

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Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model

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

employment dynamics are characterized by two dimensional inaction sets. Finally, to understand the effect of these contracts, we …

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