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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
employment dynamics are characterized by two dimensional inaction sets. Finally, to understand the effect of these contracts, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710122
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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
employment protection institutions in Norway. Next, we describe the Norwegian datasets. Finally, we document a large number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718189
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Institutions and Labor Reallocation
Bertola, Giuseppe; Rogerson, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
Despite stringent dismissal restrictions in most European countries, rates of job creation and destruction are remarkably similar across European and North American labor markets. This paper shows that relative-wage compression is conducive to higher employer-initiated job turnover, and argues...
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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
The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects...
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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
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
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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
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...
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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 through a costly choice of search intensity, which is …
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Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not?
Foster, Lucia Smith; Haltiwanger, John; Grim, Cheryl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The high pace of reallocation across producers is pervasive in the U.S. economy. Evidence shows this high pace of reallocation is closely linked to productivity. While these patterns hold on average, the extent to which the reallocation dynamics in recessions are "cleansing" is an open question....
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