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Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
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-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...
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number of people worldwide. This development has led to increasing political and scientific interest in the wages that people … crowdworking by conducting a meta-analysis of the prevalent hourly wages. After a systematic and rigorous literature search, we … consider 20 primary empirical studies, including 104 wages and 76,282 data points from 22 platforms, eight different countries …
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Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages … find a negative effect of corporate taxation on wages: a 1 euro increase in tax liabilities yields a 77 cent decrease in …
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