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Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...
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This paper uses data from the 1990s to examine changes in the wages, employment, and effort of nurses in California … might expect increases in firm market power to be associated with declines in wages. However, we show that if one extends … effects on effort rather than on wages. This prediction is bourne out by the data nurses see few declines in wages following …
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allowances lead firms to increase employment, but entry wages and workforce composition are insensitive to patent decisions. On …
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through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression … average of industrial prices from other industries, and by indicators of country wages weighted by industry labour shares for …
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An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...
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Our paper documents the large labor market wedges created by taxes, subsidies, and regulations included in the Affordable Care Act. The law changes terms of trade in both goods and factor markets for firms offering health insurance coverage. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to...
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's equilibrium implies that positive attributes in one location, like access to downtown or high wages, are offset by negative … attributes, like high housing prices. The employer's equilibrium requires that high wages be offset by a high level of … justify high wages is the basis for the study of agglomeration economies which has been a significant branch of urban …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate …
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Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is...
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, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
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