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externality, but entails commuting costs. Switching between modes of labor delivery is costly, and workers face idiosyncratic …
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …
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The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey. The results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that...
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This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents …
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rating acts as an automatic stabilizer in the labor market. We exploit the fact that penalties for layoffs vary by state … using detailed data on state tax schedules, and we measure whether firms react less to labor-demand shocks in the presence …. The results imply experience rating has a stabilizing influence on labor markets. Experience rating saved, for instance …
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We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e … beliefs about labor market tightness moderately raises support for union activity. Effect sizes are small as they imply that … counties over several decades. We find no systematic effect of changes in aggregate labor market tightness on union membership …
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, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early … the labor market remained surprisingly tight throughout the crisis, despite the dramatic job losses. By spring, 2022, the … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment …
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remained employed (but absent from work) versus unemployed or left the labor force. The authors find large employment decreases … among middle-educated and young workers, increasing disparities in countries with the largest labor market declines. A … variety of evidence suggests that labor demand was likely a larger driver of employment declines than labor supply and that …
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Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy...
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We use the price effects caused by the passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2021, to study the transfer of wealth across income groups. First, we find that rent control caused property values to fall by 6-7%, for an aggregate loss of $1.6 billion. A calibrated model of house prices...
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