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wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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domestic firms is relevant also at a more aggregate level to explain cross-sectional differences in wages among workers and … spatial differences in average wages across regions within a country. …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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domestic establishments, the wages of their new coworkers who have already been present in the plant increase. However, unlike …
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provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …
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We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE using a two-way fixed effects framework. Using data from Israel, we find that the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall...
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We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...
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This paper assesses wage setting and wage dynamics in a search and matching framework where (i) workers and firms on … wages and workers cannot commit to not searching on the job. The resulting progression of wages (from firms paying just … growth are negatively correlated with initial wages. …
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changes in occupational match quality and the associated changes in wages. We first investigate how workers' match qualities …
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the information available to workers, it is shown that wages are less flexible than needed for efficient employment levels …
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