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Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage
Haltiwanger, John - 2015
Do the job-to-job moves of workers contribute to the cyclicality of employment growth at different types of firms? In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data to provide direct evidence on the role of job-to-job flows in job reallocation in the U.S. economy. To guide our analysis, we...
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Employer Size and the Wage Structure in U.S. Manufacturing
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John - 2021
We study how the hourly wage structure varies with establishment size and how wage dispersion breaks down into between-plant and within-plant components Our study combines household and establishment data for the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1982. 1) Wage dispersion falls sharply with...
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The Employer Size-Wage Effect
Brown, Charles; Medoff, James L. - 2021
We consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages -- large employers (1) hire higher quality workers; (2) offer inferior working conditions; (3) make more use of high wages to forestall unionization; (4) have more ability to pay high wages; (5) face...
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis - 2014
framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …
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Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills : Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data
Mairesse, Jacques; Greenan, Nathalie; Topiol-Bensaid, Agnes - 2021
The main objective of the study is descriptive. We set out to explore the (cor)relations between five IT and R&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of French manufacturing and services firms over the two...
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations … conclude that technological change, mediated through techies, is an important cause of polarization in France. Firm-level trade …
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 2010
, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...
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Bank Size, Reputation, and Debt Renegotiation
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
This paper examines the effect that the coexistence of small and large banks, with different interests in the international market, has on the debt renegotiation process. Making use of a reputational model, we argue that the presence of small banks implies that debtor countries have a harder...
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