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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M. - 2012
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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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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Internal and External Labor Markets : An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis - 2021
We decompose the real annual full time compensation costs of 1.1 million French workers followed over 12 years into a part that reflects their external opportunity wage and a part that reflects their internal wage rate. Using these components of compensation we investigate the extent to which...
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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
Borjas, George J. - 2021
wages by 3 to 4 percent …
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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Staiger, Douglas; Spetz, Joanne; Phibbs, Ciaran S. - 2022
of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …
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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark; Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - 2021
We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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The Effects of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment on Employment and Relative Wages
Baldwin, Robert E. - 2022
employment and wages in OECD countries. The general conclusion is that such factors as changes in labour supplies, technology and … wages. However, further studies are needed to understand better the employment and wage impact of foreign direct investment …
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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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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility
Krishna, Pravin - 2011
increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …, non-random labor market allocation mechanisms, in determining the effects of trade policy changes on wages …
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