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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 …
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
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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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raise wages above the competitive level, output and profits per firm decline, which could deter entry and thus improve …
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We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...
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This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
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of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay … a larger proportion of their output, pay higher wages and charge higher prices …
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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages than stayers. This empirical fact suggests substantial skill selection effects … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …
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Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In particular, the imposition of new technological standards in destination markets may force exporters to adjust the firm's organization to comply and cope with the additional...
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