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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
of wage cyclicality. We present evidence that elements of perceived “fairness” or “reference points” in reservation wages …Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides …
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Minimum wages and employment
Keil, Manfred; Robertson, Donald; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper investigates the effect of minimum wages on employment using a panel of US state-based data. We estimate a … significant effects of minimum wages on youth employment. Unlike many other studies we find also significant effects on aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746492
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The incidence of an earned income tax credit: evaluating the impact on wages in the UK
Azmat, Ghazala Yasmeen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Tax credits have been a popular way to alleviate in-work poverty. The assumption is typically that the incidence is on the claimant workers. However, economic theory suggests no particular reason to believe that this should be the case. This paper investigates the incidence of the Working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745932
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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries
Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746486
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Growing up: school, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances
Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126337
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The volatility of earnings: evidence from high-frequency firm-level data
Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …
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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?
Mark, Bryan; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain
Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745202
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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745393