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A large body of empirical work has demonstrated that higher inflation, especially when it is unexpected, leads to … between inflation and the dispersion of wage changes is provided by empirical work for 14 Israeli manufacturing industries … its much less rapid and variable inflation, dispersion also decreased with unexpected price inflation …
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relative wage changes in the presence of price inflation are examined. Rigidity implies that unexpected inflation will raise … the variability of relative wage changes; contracting implies unexpected inflation reduces variability. Using data on … relative wage cnanges is reduced by greater price inflation. Most of the reduction is a response to unexpected inflation …
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A large body of empirical work has demonstrated that higher inflation, especially when it is unexpected, leads to … between inflation and the dispersion of wage changes is provided by empirical work for 14 Israeli manufacturing industries … its much less rapid and variable inflation, dispersion also decreased with unexpected price inflation …
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relative wage changes in the presence of price inflation are examined. Rigidity implies that unexpected inflation will raise … the variability of relative wage changes; contracting implies unexpected inflation reduces variability. Using data on … relative wage cnanges is reduced by greater price inflation. Most of the reduction is a response to unexpected inflation …
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The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
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We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
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Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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