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We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...
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For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level have an individual...
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We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...
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The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity is within sector and within firm before presenting new...
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: corporate or entrepreneurial. The differences in production technology, financial constraints, and labor market frictions lead … to sector-specific wages and worker sorting across the two sectors. Individuals with lower assets tend to accept lower …
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When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power …
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We propose a novel framework that integrates the "task approach" for a more precise production modeling into the search …, wages of both skill groups, and unemployment. In contrast to the canonical model with a fixed task allocation, low …-skilled workers may be harmed in terms of either lower wages or higher unemployment depending on the relative task …
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …
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