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We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.
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time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers … experience contributes more to local firms' than to MNEs' productivity. In this case, experienced MNE workers are hired by …
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …, and is associated with higher average productivity and firm profits, but also with higher wage dispersion. We also show …
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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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We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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