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Tenure and experience effects on wages : a theory
Burdett, Kenneth; Coles, Melvyn Glyn - 2010
This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through...
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Wage formation under low inflation
Holden, Steinar - 2004
This paper reviews the literature on the effects of low steady-state inflation on wage formation, focusing on four different effects. First, under low inflation, downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) may prevent real wage cuts that would have happened had inflation been higher. Second, wages...
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?
Veen, Tom van - 2020
Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …
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The wage fund theory and the gains from trade in a dynamic Ricardian model
Marjit, Sugata; Nakanishi, Noritsugu - 2021
develop an elaborate dynamic wage fund model in the context of contemporary economic theory. The modified golden rule can be …
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Fair pay and a wagebill argument for wage rigidity and excessive employment variability
Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2000
This paper considers a two-period optimal contracting model in which firms make new hires in the second period subject to the constraint that they cannot pay discriminate either against or in favour of the new hires. Under an assumption on the information available to workers, it is shown that...
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Vacancy durations and entry wages : evidence from linked vacancy-employer-employee data
Kettemann, Andreas; Müller, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...
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Household models : an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2007
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Please bring me the New York Times : on the European roots of richard Abel Musgrave
Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2007
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Academic exclusion : some experiences
Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock...
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