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Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers
Bewerunge, Philipp - 2013
compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …
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Salary or Benefits?
Oyer, Paul - 2021
Employer-provided benefits are a large and growing share of compensation costs. In this paper, I consider three factors that can affect the value created by employer-sponsored benefits. First, firms have a comparative advantage (for example, due to scale economies or tax treatment) in purchasing...
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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status
Gyourko, Joseph; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021
"comparability" process determining their wages …
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Would Reducing Tenure Probabilities Increase Faculty Salaries?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Pieper, Paul J.; Willis, Rachel A. - 2021
The simplest competitive labor market model asserts that if tenure is a desirable job characteristic for professors, they should be willing to pay for it by accepting lower salaries. Conversely, if an institution unilaterally reduces the probability that its assistant professors receive tenure,...
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Wages in the Federal and Private Sectors
Venti, Steven F. - 2021
This study addresses the legal principle of "comparability" that ties federal sector wages to wages in the private … the same wages in each sector. Estimates based on data from the 1982 CPS indicate males may have a slight wage advantage …-minimizing federal employer would pay wages no higher than necessary to attract employees and eliminate queues for federal jobs. If the …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134977
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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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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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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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Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much?
Gabaix, Xavier - 2006
This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO%u2019s pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The...
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