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New Measures of Labor Cost : Implications for Demand Elasticities and Nominal Wage Growth
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
, for the tax treatment of wages under the corporate income tax, and for variations in the user cost of training. They …
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Wage Flexibility and Openness
Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
This paper analyzes the degree of short-run, real wage flexibility in a two-sector economy under floating rates. This is done by deriving optimal wage indexation in a contracting framework. We find that the more closed the economy, the lower the degree of wage indexation. As a result, output...
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Staggered Wage Setting Without Money Illusion : Variations on a Theme of Taylor
Buiter, Willem H.; Jewitt, Ian - 2021
's assumption that wage bargainers are influenced by relative money wages rather than relative real wages. In Taylor's model money … that wage bargainers are influenced by relative real wages, which we consider somewhat more plausible, has some interesting …
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Labor Turnover Costs and Average Labor Demand
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
This paper studies simple partial equilibrium models of dynamic labor demand, under certainty. Labor turnover costs may or may not decrease the firm's average labor demand, depending on the form of the revenue function, on the rates of discount and of labor attrition, and on the relative size of...
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Reference-Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations
Eliaz, Kfir - 2013
; newly hired workers earn relatively flexible wages, but not as much as in the benchmark without reference dependence; market …
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 2021
impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …
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Wages Around the World : Pay Across Occupations and Countries
Freeman, Richard B.; Oostendorp, Remco - 2021
This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … while rising markedly in countries moving from communism to free markets and in lower middle income countries. 2. Wages in …
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Who Bears the Burden of Social Insurance?
Komamura, Kohei; Yamada, Atsuhiro - 2021
Using the society-managed health insurance data, which is cross-sectional time-series and covers 1,670 health insurance societies for seven years (FY1995-2001), we found for the first time in Japan that the majority of the employer's contribution to health insurance is shifting back onto the...
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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
case of high wages imposed on s firm by unions from that in which the firm might be choosing its wage level in order to …. The results show generally positive effects of firm wages on employee experience and tenure as well as on subjective … productivity scores. The firm's wages generally have negative effects on job vacancy rates and positive effects on the perceived …
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Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?
Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn - 2022
-accident compensation onto some workers in the form of reductions in wages. The size of the wage offsets, however, were smaller for union …
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