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This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics. We find that (1) income concentration was extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which...
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literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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determine the probability of receiving training and its effect on wages and wage growth of young workers. More specifically …
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The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
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This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …
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rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …
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's analysis, since in these two countries wages have been far from sticky, even in postwar years. Prices and wages were … attempts to explain why we do not observe perfect insulation of nominal wages from shifts in nominal demand. The section on the …
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Government backed income contingent student loans are an increasingly being used to fund higher education. An income contingent repayment plan acts as an incremental marginal tax on labor earnings, which could cause individuals to distort their work effort. This paper uses an administrative...
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We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...
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