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We use US longitudinal survey data to examine the role of performance pay (other than profit sharing) in worker quit decisions. We argue that performance pay should increasingly be viewed as an indicator of an internal labor market rather than of a simple contemporaneous incentive. Suggestive of...
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its strength and weakness, discuss its connections with theory, and draw out potential policy implications of its findings …
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risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
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economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …
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underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …
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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...
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moderating effect and also because employment of low-paid workers is more elastic to wages. We test these theoretical predictions … suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … unemployment. We conclude that it is reasonable to view the wage curve as an empirical law of economics. -- wages ; unemployment … pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …
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. We exploit the sub-sample of workers hired from unemployment, for whom the exogenous mobility assumption is not rejected …
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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595910