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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? Evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012
deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road drivers work … companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following deregulation and …
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Factor adjustments after deregulation: panel evidence from Colombian plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana D.; … - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle
Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2006
attributed to product market deregulation. Our quantitative analysis suggests that under individual bargaining, a decrease of … less than two tenths of a percentage point of unemployment rates can be attributed to product market deregulation, a …
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Product markets and paychecks: deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking
Wozniak, Abigail - 2006
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality …, between-establishment inequality increased dramatically. Deregulation also led to increases in inequality among managers …
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. - 2007
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271877
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Wage inequality of US truck drivers
Monaco, Kristen; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011
in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
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A post-deregulation analysis of wages in US freight transportation
Habermalz, Steffen; Monaco, Kristen - 2007
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with new freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight transportation, with a focus on wage differentials...
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High on life? Medical marijuana laws and suicide
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...
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Cross-border spillover: US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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