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The starting point of this study is the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also...
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Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by...
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, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage … or motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables …
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This paper uses job applications- data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex-ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessively of labor as measured by the number of job applications received for the most recent positions...
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Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …
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reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …
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reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …
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Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …
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We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...
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resources significantly increased educational attainment and wages later in life, particularly for the children of unskilled …
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