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literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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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 …
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We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …
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We decompose the real annual full time compensation costs of 1.1 million French workers followed over 12 years into a part that reflects their external opportunity wage and a part that reflects their internal wage rate. Using these components of compensation we investigate the extent to which...
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employment and wages in OECD countries. The general conclusion is that such factors as changes in labour supplies, technology and … wages. However, further studies are needed to understand better the employment and wage impact of foreign direct investment …
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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 …
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