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who are reemployed in the remaining manufacturing and non-trade sectors. The results show that relative wages of workers … different levels of education, relative wages of workers with some college education rise by 3.5 percent, while the real wages …
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Using linked employer-employee data for the U.S., we examine whether shocks to firm revenues are transmitted to the earnings of continuing employees. While full insurance is rejected, the elasticity of worker earnings with respect to persistent shocks in firm revenues is small and consistent...
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This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in … with 20 or more female workers. The results indicate that monthly starting wages of the infra-marginal woman hired in a …
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This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...
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We investigate the impact of union strength on changes in nonunion wages and employment. The prevailing model in this … area is the threat model, which predicts that increases in union strength cause increases in nonunion wages and decreases … threat) are associated with increases in the nonunion wage. Furthermore, increases in union wages appear to decrease, rather …
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. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …
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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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the dispersion of acceptable wages around their mean. On the other hand, the job seeker may opt for a more ambitious …
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A stylized fact in the growing literature on public sector labor markets is that estimates of public sector union wage premia are significantly lower than estimates of private sector union wage premia. In this paper I investigate the hypothesis that this difference may in part be due to the...
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Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the...
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