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Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
Lang, Kevin - 2011
We develop a model in which firms hire heterogeneous workers but must offer all workers insurance benefits under … similar terms. In equilibrium, some firms offer free health insurance, some require an employee premium payment and some do … not offer insurance. Making the employee contribution pre-tax lowers the cost to workers of a given employee premium and …
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The Demand for Youth : Implications for the Hours Volatility Puzzle
Jaimovich, Nir - 2010
The employment and hours worked of young individuals fluctuate much more over the business cycle than those of prime-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over the cycle. We argue that the joint behavior...
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Median Stable Matching
Schwarz, Michael - 2010
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This Job is 'Getting Old : ' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2010
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model which can endogenously account for these facts, where factor bias reflects profit-maximizing decisions by...
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Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options
Kruse, Douglas L. - 2010
This paper examines how shared capitalism compensation systems - those that link employee pay to company performance - affect diverse employee outcomes. It uses two data sets: the national GSS survey that provides a broad representative view of the extent of the programs; and the NBER Shared...
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Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2010
We introduce worker differences in labor supply, reflecting differences in skills and assets, into a model of separations, matching, and unemployment over the business cycle. Separating from employment when unemployment duration is long is particularly costly for workers with high labor supply....
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Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but is skill-biased today. This fact is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model of the transition to sustained economic growth...
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Teaching Locals New Tricks : Foreign Experts as a Channel of Knowledge Transfers
Markusen, James R. - 2010
Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms have received a good deal of empirical attention, but theoretical micro-foundations for this mechanism are limited. Here we develop a dynamic model in which foreign experts may train domestic workers...
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Reaching for the Stars : Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?
Haltiwanger, John - 2010
Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data, this paper makes a key connection between talent and firms in markets with risky product innovations. We show that software...
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