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wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …
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peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers' morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous … work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that wages are not, or maybe, a slight inverse U-shaped function of start …
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wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested …. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The worker data are informative on individual wages and labor market … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …
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This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages … and the distribution of tenures. Starting point is the observation that within-job log wages for an individual can be … outside wages only at job start and job separation, our empirical analysis of with job wage growth is based on expected wage …
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workers' age, wages, and productivity. Our analysis uncovers an inverse U-shaped relationship. While some wage adjustments … alignment between wages and productivity throughout workers' careers. …
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This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
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differentials reveals a positive productivity effect of energy prices and economies of scale in several sectors, while wages …
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