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higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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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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) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
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hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …
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bias in estimation. In an analogous manner, this paper proposes to exploit assortative matching on risk attitudes within …, including those that may influence worker wages and are correlated with observed occupational fatality risks. This estimator …
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estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …
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correlations between labor market tightness and wages weakened noticeably. This change was accompanied in a break in the … relationship between wages and prices, so wage inflation has become a much less important determinant of price inflation …
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strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
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We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...
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