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Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.
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Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of...
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unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978...
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We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …
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This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …
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This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …
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quality of local labor supply. These programs will increase the employability and wages of former child participants in these …
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