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Does European unemployment prop up American wages? : National labor markets and global trade
Davis, Donald R. - In: The American economic review 88 (1998) 3, pp. 478-494
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Employment tenure and earnings profiles in Japan and the United States: comment
Clark, Robert L. - In: The American economic review 82 (1992) 1, pp. 336-345
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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from that in Britain and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …
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Changes in the Structure of Wages : the U.S. Versus Japan
Katz, Lawrence F.; Revenga, Ana - 2021
This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …
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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. And in Japan
Mincer, Jacob - 2011
proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …
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International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We then combine our estimates of persistent labor income...
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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...
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Trade Protection and Wages : Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021
Starting in 1985, Colombia experienced gradual trade liberalization that culminated in the drastic tariff reductions of 1990-91. This paper exploits these trade reforms to investigate the relationship between protection and wages. The focus of the analysis is on relative wages, defined as...
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Trade Flows and Wage Premiums : Does Who or What Matter?
Lovely, Mary E.; Richardson, J. David - 2021
In this paper we investigate relationships between trade, wages, and the rewards to skill for U.S. workers during the period 1981 - 92. We measure U.S. trade flows with three groups of trading partners -- industrial countries, newly industrial countries, and primary producers -- and we estimate...
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