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higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
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strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …
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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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attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a dominant role of the retail distribution margin. Second, at the level of … individual goods and services, the average contribution of service-sector wages is significantly reduced, one-third as large (31 … consistent with the notion that baby-sitting services and haircuts embody local wages to a far greater extent than highly traded …
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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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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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The magnitude of and heterogeneity in systematic earnings risk has important implications for various theories in macro, labor, and financial economics. Using administrative data, we document how the aggregate risk exposure of individual earnings to GDP and stock returns varies across gender,...
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Using linked employer-employee data for the U.S., we examine whether shocks to firm revenues are transmitted to the earnings of continuing employees. While full insurance is rejected, the elasticity of worker earnings with respect to persistent shocks in firm revenues is small and consistent...
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