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% lower past average wages and hired workers with 13% lower past average wages. Conditional upon bargaining, workers hired by …
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in interstate commerce. Since 1981 a rising number of states have set general minimum wages that substantially exceed the …
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jobs offering higher wages at the cost of a greater reduction in school time productivity. The wages of students, other …
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How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect employee performance in the public sector? We present the first experimental evidence on this question in the context of a unique policy change in Indonesia that led to a permanent doubling of base teacher salaries. Using a large-scale...
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The magnitude of and heterogeneity in systematic earnings risk has important implications for various theories in macro, labor, and financial economics. Using administrative data, we document how the aggregate risk exposure of individual earnings to GDP and stock returns varies across gender,...
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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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. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …
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because the marginal tax rates, in general equilibrium, impact wages, and hence individual utility. The “progressivity” effect …
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This paper uses linked establishment-firm-employee data to examine the relationship between the scientists and engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers in industry are employed in establishments producing goods...
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
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