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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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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 … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …

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Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-1990

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … Curve, no autoregression is found in wages. The paper casts doubt on standard ideas in macroeconomics, regional economics …

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International Wage Curves

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

The paper provides evidence for the existence of a negatively sloped locus linking the level of pay to the rate of regional (or industry) unemployment. This "wage curve" is estimated using microeconomic data for Britain, the US, Canada, Korea, Austria, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, and...

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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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Foreign-Owned Firms and U.S. Wages

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments …. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They … tend to locate in lower-wage states, but to pay more than domestically-owned firms within industries within states. Wages …

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The Great Compression : The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid- Century

Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

The structure of wages narrowed considerably during the 1940's, increased slightly during the 1950's and 1960's, and … return attention here to the decade that was witness to an extraordinary compression in the wage structure. Wages narrowed by …-10 differential in the log of wages was 1.414 in 1940 but 1.060 in 1950. By 1985 it has risen back to its 1940 level. Thus the recent …

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Foreign Ownership and Wages in the United States, 1987 - 1992

Feliciano, Zadia; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments … wages in favor of foreign establishments remains even when these other determinants of wages are taken into account. Within … manufacturing, the extent of foreign ownership in an industry in a state had no impact on wages in 1987 when these other factors …

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Wage Effects of a U.S. - Mexican Free Trade Agreement

Leamer, Edward E. - 2021

designed to maintain wages of low-skilled workers. With or without a free trade agreement. the United States faces a …

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The Employment and Wage Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Grossman, Gene M. - 2021

sensitivity of employment to the domestic price of imports varies significantly across these nine sectors, whereas industry wages … of unemployment and wages so generated and the actual, historical paths are attributed to the effects of import … in wages in two industries, among the nine studied …

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