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, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …
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and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …
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This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the labor market. We find that earnings of the average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within...
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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
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among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … - primarily since the late 1990s - makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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