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conditions across national borders, and can thereby provide an implicit cross-country risk-sharing mechanism. -- wages ; profit … affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an …
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longer than other individuals at the same educational level. Females appear to have lower reservation wages when entering the … labour market (shorter search time and lower wages). They also stay in the first job longer than males do. The search …
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According to data from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program, average hourly real compensation in the United States has grown consistently over time and become markedly more volatile since the mid-1980s. By contrast, data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) imply that average...
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inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined …
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percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …
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and 10738 (mainly manufacturing) firms in France. At the sectoral level, the average price-cost mark-up and the average …
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While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who … were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity … of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges between -0.0185 and -0.0230, depending on the instrument we use …
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zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we … find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration decreases hires by 12.4% and the wages of new hires by nearly 0 … employers in the retail industry would be most damaging, with about 24 million euros in annual lost wages for new hires, and an …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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