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We study the wage growth of job stayers over the business cycle, and show that wage adjustments within a job spell … display significant history dependence. This is at odds with the spot market model, which implies that the wage growth of a … larger wage raises during expansions, and are subject to smaller wage cuts during downswings. The change in the …
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The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees. I focus on the within-plant diversity of employees’...
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and nominal wage contracts. It is assumed that the nominal hourly wage rate and the hours of work are jointly determined …
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We present an empirical analysis on the New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve (NKWPC), which is derived by Gali (2011) as a … micro-founded structural relationship between wage inflation and the unemployment rate under a sticky wage framework using …
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The U.S. manufacturing sector has become the poster child of the jobless recovery, the latest victim of the Bubble Economy. On Labor Day 2003 President Bush called for the creation of a new position of Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the Department of Commerce. The National Association...
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profit-led model, non-linear differential equations lead to endogenous cycles in the wage-share-employment-space which can be …
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The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...
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Since the 1980s, the labour demand has shifted toward more educated workers in the US. The most common explanation is that the productivity of skilled workers has risen relative to the unskilled, but it is not easy to explain why the aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s....
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A model is analyzed in which workers' efforts depend positively on the real wage and the unemployment rate. Due to … wage. When demand shocks occur, firms' first response is therefore to adjust output and employment. But as the unemployment … rate changes, the efficient real wage changes too. This causes firms to adjust their nominal wages and prices which in turn …
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This paper aims to investigate the cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom over the period 1972 …-2002 using the General Household Survey (GHS). Wage structure of the UK shows a cyclical pattern, which may be from the different … wage cyclicality of the top, middle and bottom percentile groups. Higher educated male workers have experienced a faster …
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