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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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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group …
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implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …
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This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
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-Samuelson theory of expanded trade with countries that are abundant in less-skilled workers, as well as with some models of …
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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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share, and may even reduce wages, while the creation of new tasks has the opposite effects. Our full model endogenizes …
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variables for estimates of effects of college characteristics on wages. ML also seems relevant for an instrumental variables (IV …
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We analyze a firm's job-assignment and worker-monitoring decisions when workers face occasional crises. Firms prefer to assign good workers to a difficult task and to not employ bad workers. Firms observe failures but only observe successfully resolved crises if they monitor the worker. If...
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