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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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Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the share of executive compensation paid through stock options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay...
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are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …
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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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relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … establishments. When we examine the determinants of wages within these establishments, we find that re-engineering a workplace to … incorporate more high performance practices leads to higher wages. However, increasing the usage of profit sharing or stock …
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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 debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between wages and the scientific orientation of R&D organizations. Science …&D productivity gains arising from earlier access to discoveries (a Productivity effect). The equilibrium relationship between wages … applied to a sample of postdoctoral biologists. The results suggest a strong negative relationship between wages and Science …
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This paper analyzes optimal portfolio decisions of long-horizon investors with undiversifiable labor income risk and exogenous expected retirement and lifetime horizons. It shows that the fraction of savings optimally invested in stocks is unambiguously larger for employed investors than for...
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In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we exploit the fact that a substantial...
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This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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