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-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …'s employment, breast cancer may not be debilitating for those who remain in the work force. We explore numerous possible biases …
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raise application rates for job seekers with wage offers above reservation wages, and that - among the latter - the increase … in application rates is stronger for those with higher reservation wages. The latter two types of evidence are consistent …
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This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...
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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 …
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critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common … goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … as well as employment losses for the least-skilled although there is disagreement about the employment effects but on net …
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productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …
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-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …
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This paper tests some empirical implications of the general human capital model's explanation of rising wage profiles. At the individual level, the model implies that there will be a negative relationship between the initial wage level and wage growth of young, inexperienced workers. At the...
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Hostile takeovers may reduce the prevalence of long-term employment contracts if they facilitate the opportunistic … activity, and find little evidence of an expropriation motive. Then. since we observe wage and employment structures both … before and after takeovers. we investigate whether proxies for extramarginal wages drop after hostile takeovers. The ex post …
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We construct a prediction model for testing the hypothesis that firms with employees earning extramarginal wages … multinomial logit models. Variables related to proxies for the magnitude of extramarginal wages payments, plus other firm …
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