empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages …

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …

status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

This paper studies quarterly employment flows of approximately 10,000 large U.S. manufacturing establishments during … 1972:1-1980:4.After estimating the extent of short run microeconomic substitution between employment and hours per worker … (hours-week), we construct measures of the path of the deviation between actual and desired employment based on the observed …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …