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Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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Careers and Wages in Family Firms : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Di Porto, Edoardo; Pagano, Marco; Pezone, Vincenzo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers. Differences in worker sorting account for half of the wage gap while …

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The incidence of mandated health insurance : evidence from the affordable care act dependent care mandate

Goda, Gopi Shah; Farid, Monica; Bhattacharya, Jay - 2016

employer-based coverage - whether or not they have dependent children - experience an annual reduction in wages of …

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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry … wages and the demand for skills"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia - 2005

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...

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The Wage Curve Reloaded

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …

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Portfolio Choice over the Life-Cycle in the Presence of 'Trickle Down' Labor Income

Benzoni, Luca - 2005

Empirical evidence shows that changes in aggregate labor income and stock market returns exhibit only weak correlation at short horizons. As we document below, however, this correlation increases substantially at longer horizons, which provides at least suggestive evidence that stock returns and...

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Bargaining Power in Marriage : Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

Pollak, Robert A. - 2005

What determines bargaining power in marriage? This paper argues that wage rates, not earnings, determine well-being at the threat point and, hence, determine bargaining power. Observed earnings at the bargaining equilibrium may differ from earnings at the threat point because hours allocated to...

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The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2005

The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign...

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Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs

Goldman, Dana - 2005

between cash wages and other benefits. Under such an arrangement, higher health insurance premiums must induce changes in the … composition of total compensation -- either in lower after-tax wages or in decreased contributions to other benefits. The results … suggest that about two-thirds of the premium increase is financed out of cash wages and the remaining one-thirds is financed …

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