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What went wrong? : The erosion of relative earnings and employment among young black men in the 1980s
Bound, John - In: The quarterly journal of economics 107 (1992) 1, pp. 201-232
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Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment? : The U.S. Experience
Bell, Linda A. - 1985
characteristics. We find that industrial wages are positively correlated with value productivity per worker, even after controlling … productivity are uncorrelated across sectors and wages depend on aggregate, rather than sectoral conditions.With regard to the …
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
Bell, Linda A. - 2000
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
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