Similar Search Results

Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Nonprofit Sector

Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The nonprofit sector's ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the private sector in a number of ways. We analyze how nonprofits are affected by changes in the minimum wage utilizing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Internal Revenue Service, linked to state...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287382

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

Azar, José - 2019

are below marginal productivity, as with monopsony, employers are able to increase wages without laying off workers, but … monopsony explanation by studying a key low-wage retail sector and using data on labor market concentration that covers the … monopsony model as an explanation for the near-zero minimum wage employment effect documented in prior work. They suggest the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480047

The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector

Kleiner, Morris M.; Wang, Wenchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In the U.S., occupational licensing is more prevalent in the public sector than in the private sector, but the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers has not been analyzed in detail. Our study initially examines the probability of a licensed worker selecting into the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287314

The Missing Middle Managers : Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development

Hjort, Jonas; Malmberg, Hannes; Schoellman, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper shows that large, multi-establishment business enterprises face a high cost of middle management in poor countries and that this cost inhibits the growth of the modern sector. We provide new empirical evidence using a database covering compensation for 300,000 middle managers working...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435154

First Foot Forward : A Two-Step Econometric Method for Parsing and Estimating the Impacts of Multiple Identities

Hanks, Andrew S.; Kniffin, Kevin M.; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Marketing and strategy researchers have often studied how organizations navigate multiple identities in relation to category spanning but extant literature pays less attention to understanding how individuals do so. Moreover, current econometric approaches only scratch the surface with respect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334510

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247949

The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare

Amiti, Mary - 2019

This paper explores the impacts of the Trump administration's trade policy on prices and welfare. Over the course of 2018, the U.S. experienced substantial increases in the prices of intermediates and final goods, dramatic changes to its supply-chain network, reductions in availability of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479624

Unequal Expenditure Switching : Evidence from Switzerland

Auer, Raphael A.; Burstein, Ariel T.; Lein-Rupprecht, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What are the unequal effects of changes in consumer prices on the cost of living? In the context of changes in import prices, most analyses focus on variation across households in initial expenditure shares on imported goods. However, the unequal welfare effects of non-marginal foreign price...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938726

Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy : A Reexamination

Engel, Charles - 2009

This paper examines optimal monetary policy in an open-economy two-country model with sticky prices. We show that currency misalignments are inefficient and lower world welfare. We find that optimal policy must target not only inflation and the output gap, but also the currency misalignment....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463818

The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector : Evidence from Higher Education

Baker, Michael; Halberstam, Yosh; Kroft, Kory; Mas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512131

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last