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Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers
Haltiwanger, John - 2000
empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages …
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Labor Market Fluidity and Human Capital Accumulation
Engbom, Niklas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814473
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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
Boersch-Supan, Axel - 2001
This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper argues that, alongside the amply discussed,...
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An Anatomy of Monopsony : Search Frictions, Amenities and Bargaining in Concentrated Markets
Berger, David; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, wages and wage inequality. Our main exercise quantifies the contribution of each channel to income inequality and wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250167
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463533
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - 2007
substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of …
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The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance : Evidence from Canada
Gruber, Jonathan - 1993
provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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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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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market
Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and...
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The Wage-Productivity Hypothesis : Its Economic Consequences and Policy Implications
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1986
the wages they receive. In particular, we show that this hypothesis may explain the high urban wages and unemployment … control urbaxv'rural migration, but could control wages and urban employment, it would, in general, set wages and employment … into accounce, both In the determination of shadow wages to be used in cost benefit analysis and In the analysisis of the …
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