unemployment, called ranking. With the filling of vacancies unaffected by the selection rule, both equilibria have the same … aggregate dynamics, but different distributions of unemployment durations. With the threat point for the Nash bargained wage … being a worker with zero unemployment duration, the wage with ranking is much more sensitive to changes in the tightness of …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … identification strategies used, critically assess strengths and weaknesses, discuss connections with theory, and draw out potential …

standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … do not affect the reemployment wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, implying reservation wages do not …

executive officers. However, firms are run by teams of managers, and a theory of the firm should also explain the distribution …

What happens when a firm switches from paying hourly wages to paying piece rates? The theory developed below predicts … individuals at the firm will rise as well. The theory is tested with data from a large autoglass company that changed compensation … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …