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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William S. - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Atypical work and employment continuity

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher James - 2009

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering … more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we … determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search …

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Atypical work : who gets it, and where does it lead? ; some U.S. evidence using the NLSY79

Addison, John T.; Cotti, Chad; Surfield, Christopher James - 2009

-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential …/consulting work ; regular open-ended employment ; earnings development …

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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers’ compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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Promotion and wages in mid-career : gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...

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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011

handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of …-disparate employment trends ; recession …

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … aversion (0.9282) and the estimates indicate that both wage and employment rate dispersions decrease significantly with …

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Promotions, demotions, halo effects and earnings dynamics of American executives

Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...

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