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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility : Direct Evidence From Teachers
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
first estimates of worker-firm match quality using output data as opposed to inferring productivity from wages or employment … durations. Because teacher wages are essentially unrelated to productivity, this is compelling evidence that workers may seek …
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School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets : Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011
I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...
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Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992
Corcoran, Sean P. - 2002
School officials and policy makers have grown increasingly concerned about their ability to attract and retain talented teachers. A number of authors have shown that in recent years the brightest students at least those with the highest verbal and math scores on standardized tests are less...
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The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes
Biasi, Barbara - 2018
Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies a 2011 reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. I show that, following the reform, some districts switched to flexible compensation and...
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463251
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482041
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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2009
We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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Stepping Off the Wage Escalator : The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment
Elsby, Michael W. L. - 2009
This paper emphasizes the role of wage growth in shaping work incentives. It provides an analytical framework for labor supply in the presence of a return to labor market experience and aggregate productivity growth. A key finding of the theory is that there is an interaction between these two...
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2006
The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...
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Exchange Rates and Wages
Goldberg, Linda - 2001
implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …
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