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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income distribution. I evaluate a 2010 California mandate that required cities to submit municipal salaries to the State, to be posted on a public website. City managers--typically the...
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Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model
Alvarez, Fernando; Veracierto, Marcelo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effects of fixed-term contracts using a version of the Lucas and Prescott island model with undirected search. A fixed-term contract of length J is modeled as a tax on separations of workers with tenure higher than J . While in principle these policies require a very...
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Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000
Eriksson, Tor; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper consists of three parts. First, we briefly describe some key features of the labor market in Denmark, some of which contribute to the Danish labor markets behaving quite differently from those in many other European countries. The next two parts exploit detailed linked...
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997
Salvanes, Kjell G; Hunnes, Arngrim; Møen, Jarle - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
To what extent do different firms follow different wage policies? How do such policies affect worker mobility between firms, and what are the effects of different wage bargaining regimes? The empirical branch of personnel economics has long been hampered by a lack of representative data sets....
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Institutions and Labor Reallocation
Bertola, Giuseppe; Rogerson, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
to higher employer-initiated job turnover, and argues that wagesetting institutions and job-security provisions differ … across countries in ways that are both consistent with rough uniformity of job turnover statistics and readily explained by … America, European dismissal restrictions are essential to a proper interpretation of both similar patterns in job turnover and …
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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000
Skans, Oskar Nordström; Edin, Per-Anders; HOLMLUND, BERTIL - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far … inequality account for the entire increase in wage dispersion. This pattern, which remains when we control for observable …
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the …
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage …
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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search
Lentz, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and off the job for employment opportunities similar to that of Lentz (2010) and Bagger and Lentz (2013). The worker determines the frequency by which employment opportunities arrive...
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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Marschke, Gerald Roger Marschke, Jr.; Courty, Pascal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
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