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The Swedish Wage Stucture : The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy?

Edin, Per-Anders - 1993

Wage inequality in Sweden declined precipitously during the 1960s and the 1970s. There was a sharp reduction in overall … relative wage movements in Sweden …

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Fluctuations in Weekly Hours and Total Hours Worked Over the Past 90 Years and the Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing

Neumann, Todd - 2013

During the Great Depression of 1930s, changes in the workweek drove a larger portion of changes in total labor input than in other decades. Work-sharing policies appear to be responsible. Hoover created various work-sharing committees lead by key industrialists, which pushed for shorter...

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Policy Transferability and Hysteresis : Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994

I develop a model with the path of labor-market outcomes exhibiting hysteresis depending on prior labor-market policy. The results suggest that attempts to transfer policies across economies lead to surprising results even if current economic outcomes in the countries appear similar. Examples of...

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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy : New and Received Wisdom

Forslund, Anders - 1994

About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in … the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …

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The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

Agan, Amanda Y. - 2018

For recently released prisoners, the minimum wage and the availability of state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) can influence both their ability to find employment and their potential legal wages relative to illegal sources of income, in turn affecting the probability they return to prison....

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Wage Fixing

Gottfries, Axel; Jarosch, Gregor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We model and analyze employer cartels that fix wages by committing to a wage ceiling. The setting is a frictional labor market with large employers that compete for workers via posted wages. Wage fixing reduces competition both inside and outside the cartel, leading to market-wide wage...

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China : An Institutional View of an Unusual Macroeconomy

Dollar, David - 2013

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic development and hence inconsistent with the standard neoclassical growth model. We show that Chinese macroeconomic patterns instead appear consistent with an environment where state...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades : A Reassessment

Autor, David H. - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...

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The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage : An Educational Cascade

Sutch, Richard - 2010

Neglected, but significant, the long-run consequence of the minimum wage - which was made national policy in the United States in 1938 - is its stimulation of capital deepening. This took two forms. First, the engineered shortage of low-skill, low-paying jobs induced teenagers to invest in...

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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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