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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same : Trends in Long-Term Employment in the United States, 1969-2002
Stevens, Ann Huff - 2021
This study considers whether there has been a decline in the attachment of workers and firms in the United States over the past several decades. Specifically, it compares snapshots of job tenure taken at the end of workers' careers from 1969 to 2002, using data from the Retirement History...
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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets
Weil, David - 2021
Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...
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The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. And Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960 : A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2021
This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …-term contracts and company-wide employee representation.The paper then documents the subsequent processes of bifurcation. While Japan …
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Implicit Contracts, the Great Depression, and Institutional Change : A Comparative Analysis of U.S. And Japanese Employment Relations, 1920-1940
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2021
, the paper documents parallel institutional developments in the U.S. and Japan towards corporate welfarism during the 1920s …, most major employers in Japan maintained their implicit contracts, while developing institutional arrangements to mitigate … the cost of long-term commitment. In contrast to the U.S., labor laws in Japan developed complementary to private welfare …
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Retirement Pay and Officer Retention
Smith, Jeffrey - 2012
We use data from a natural experiment in which retirement benefits were reduced by congressional legislation and later restored to estimate the effect of future retirement benefit eligibility upon the decision of whether to remain in the U.S. military. We find that the generosity of retirement...
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Public Plans and Short-Term Employees
Munnell, Alicia H. - 2012
Public sector defined benefit pension plans are based on final earnings. As such, these plans are back-loaded; those with long careers receive substantial benefits and those who leave early receive little. The analysis consists of three parts. The first section discusses the design of state and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099419
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Recall and Unemployment
Fujita, Shigeru - 2013
Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) covering 1990-2011, we document that a surprisingly large number of workers return to their previous employer after a jobless spell and experience more favorable labor market outcomes than job switchers. Over 40% of all...
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Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?
Figlio, David N. - 2013
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at...
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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Bjelland, Melissa - 2008
We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...
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Specific Capital, Mobility, and Wages : Wages Rise with Job Seniority
Topel, Robert H. - 2021
The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of specific human capital, as well as other widely accepted theories of compensation. The fact that persons with longer job tenures typically earn higher wages tends to support these...
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