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-born increased between 1970 and 1990, experienced a significant increase in their wage and in the rental price of their housing. Such …
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. Subsequently, housing-price inequality has risen to pre-War levels, while rent inequality has risen less. Combining both measures …
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contrast, because there is excess labor (involuntary unemployment) in equilibrium, efficiency wage models resemble models in … effects of wages are important but cannot clearly distinguish between the efficiency wage and market-clearing versions of …
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The paper uses CPS data from 1964 to 1985 to test for the existence of rent-sharing in US tabor markets, Using an … consistent with rent-sharing theory (or a labor contract framework with risk-averse firms) and to be inconsistent with the … competitive labor market model. The paper estimates the unemployment elasticity of pay at approximately -0.03, and the profit …
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This study provides direct evidence concerning the relationship between experience and performance among managerial and professional employees doing similar work in two major U. S. corporations. The facts presented indicate that while, within grade levels, there is a strong positive association...
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This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
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A common view of CEO compensation is that there is essentially no correlation between firm performance and CEO pay. This calls into question an important component of effective corporate governance. This zero correlation' belief is based on the widely cited result that CEO wealth rises by only...
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“pass-through” business profit, which can include entrepreneurial labor income for tax reasons. This paper asks whether top … pass-through profit mostly reflects human capital, defined as all inalienable factors embodied in business owners, rather … than financial capital. Tax data linking 11 million firms to their owners show that top pass-through profit accrues to …
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Business income is important in the upper tail of the personal income distribution, but the extent to which it is captured by measures of personal income varies substantially across tax regimes. Using linked individual and firm data from Norway, we are able to attribute business income to...
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the provision of health insurance has influenced wage inequality. Finally, our results suggest there have been substantial …
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