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This paper provides the first estimates of the effects of handedness on hourly earnings. Augmenting a conventional earnings equation with an indicator of left handedness shows there is a well determined positive effect on male earnings with non-manual workers enjoying a slightly larger premium....
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I use panel data to examine whether long-term changes in industry wages are positively related to long-term changes in … between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … less skilled individuals in a manner that biases down the estimated relationship between industry employment and wages in …
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movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal movers, they find, were slightly more procyclical, and wages of … external movers considerably more procyclical, than those of stayers. The greater cyclicality of movers' wages is particularly … comprised about 90% of all observations in this large sample of British workers, the procyclicality of their wages was the …
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that the wages of internal movers are slightly more procyclical and wages of external movers considerably more procyclical … the procyclicality of wages for job stayers, with across- and within-firm mobility playing a lesser role. Thus, there is … little evidence for rigid wage models that imply that employers use changes in job titles as a means of adjusting wages to …
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This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly studied associate’s degrees. Using administrative data from Kentucky , we estimate panel data models that...
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Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the cyclicality of wages within employer …-employee matches for the years 1970-91. Recent research on wage cyclicality has suggested that wages are very procyclical (tending to …-based pay will increase the procyclicality of wages within matches. …
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Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage changes and provides some evidence against a model of perfect downward...
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wages subject to a labour demand curve. The level of wages is determined by union effort. The union negotiates as a monopoly … negotiator which is a function of the wages bargaindes and other workers wages. …
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). Without a marginal cost pricing policy, abundant labor in the South gives firms the power to set wages through their choice of … output. A strategic reduction in output offsets or weakens direct gains from lower wages. In an open economy, it also … locating in the South casting doubts on traditional beliefs that multinationals are always attracted to lower wages. Adopting …
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