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determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …
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.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …
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By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …
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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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This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the...
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returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …
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