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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply with Coordinated Working Times

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...

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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …

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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986

Davis, Stephen J. - 2010

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

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Rent-Sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …

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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury - 2013

Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …

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Stepping Off the Wage Escalator : The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

Elsby, Michael - 2010

This paper emphasizes the role of wage growth in shaping work incentives. It provides an analytical framework for labor supply in the presence of a return to labor market experience and aggregate productivity growth. A key finding of the theory is that there is an interaction between these two...

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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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Hours and Wages

Bick, Alexander - 2020

-sectional distribution of usual weekly hours and hourly wages. First, usual weekly hours are heavily concentrated around 40 hours, while at … wages are non-monotonic across the usual hours distribution, with a peak for those working 50 hours. The novel feature of …

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Insurance and Opportunities : A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

Heathcote, Jonathan - 2008

second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …

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