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The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
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differential. We show that immoral work is associated withhigher wages, both using correlational evidence from administrative labor …
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …
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effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the …
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establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages … and employment, generates a fractionalized understanding of the multidimensional career effect that union membership has …
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wages increase. I test my model’s predictions using the personnel records from a large US firm from 1970-1988. I find a …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of …
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There is considerable and widespread concern about whether CEOs are appropriately punished for poor performance. The empirical literature on CEO turnover documents that CEOs are indeed more likely to be forced out if their performance is poor relative to the industry average. However, CEOs are...
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