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Real estate agent earnings and local housing prices

Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A.; Qu, Zichong - 2022

Real estate agents typically receive commissions based on a fixed percentage of home price purchases. Because housing prices vary across markets, one might expect that realtors have higher earnings in high-priced markets. Prior work by Hsieh and Moretti (2003) suggests that entry among realtors...

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Evaluating workplace mandates with flows versus stocks : an application to California paid family leave

Curtis, Mark; Hirsch, Barry T.; Schroeder, Mary C. - 2014

Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These … effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The …

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Five decades of union wages, nonunion wages, and union wage gaps at Unionstats.com

Macpherson, David A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

Union, nonunion, and overall wages, plus regression-based union wage gap estimates, are provided annually, beginning in …

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Nonprofit wages : theory and evidence

Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A.; Preston, Anne E. - 2017

. Standard wage level analysis indicates lower wages for men employed in nonprofits compared to male for-profit workers with … substantive wage penalties for either women or men moving between jobs in and outside the nonprofit sector. We conclude that wages …

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Revisiting union wage and job loss effects using the displaced worker surveys

Kulkarni, Abhir; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2019

Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...

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Wage determination in the US airline industry : union power under product market constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2006

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … attract and retain qualified employees throughout the industry. Because unions retain bargaining power at the major carriers …

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Evaluating the labor market performance of veterans using a matched comparison group design

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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An anatomy of public sector unions

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2013

relative public/private and union/nonunion wages. Observations are provided on the current debates regarding public/private pay … and the role of public sector unions. -- union membership ; public sector unions ; public sector pay ; employment …

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The labor market earnings of veterans: is military experience more or less valuable than civilian experience?

Makridis, Christos A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

We assess the labor market experiences of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others, controlling for a wide array of demographic characteristics and industry and occupational fixed effects. First, we find that male and female veterans receive civilian earnings nearly...

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Match bias from earnings imputation in the current population survey : the case of imperfect matching

Bollinger, Christopher R. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...

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