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The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressures

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022

The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanism in the wage-setting behavior of US employers, and we develop novel survey...

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Turbulent firms, turbulent wages?

Comin, Diego; Groshen, Erica L.; Rabin, Bess - 2006

rise in volatility of firm performance documented in research by Comin and Mulani and others. After examining models that … explain the relationship between firm and wage volatility, we investigate this linkage in three complementary panel data sets … churning as an explanation for the link to firm performance in high-frequency (over spans of five years) wage volatility …

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Start Time and Worker Compensation: Implications for Staggered-Hours Programs

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2010

There is little known about the effects of staggered-hours programs that affect workers' working schedules to mitigate peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers' morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that...

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FDI technology spillovers and wages

Urban, Dieter M. - 2007

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from...

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The gender wage gap in four countries

Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006

In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these...

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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...

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What does it take to be a star? The role of performance and the media for German soccer players

Lehmann, Erik E.; Schulze, Günther G. - 2007

We test existing superstar theories for the German soccer league. We use various measures for individual players' performance and media presence to analyze whether performance and popularity can explain salaries and superstars in soccer. Moreover, we argue that quantile regression technique...

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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter; Wei, … - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: Estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290421

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