hand, that same signal can help workers bid up wages and capture the value of employers’ status. Exploring this tension, we … value of their ability early in the career, but must raise wages more rapidly than other firms as those workers accrue …

can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same … characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the hold-up problem in firm-specific investment, can …

importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …

currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and … for devising labor policies that aim at dampening employment fluctuations. The theoretical literature suggests that job … firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …

This study examines the effect of noncompete enforceability on training and wages. An increase from non-enforcement to … mean enforceability is associated with a 4% decrease in hourly wages. Consistent with reduced bargaining power, noncompete …

growth is smaller for those anticipating intermittent labor force participation; why males earn more than females; why whites … the young; and why numerous other labor market phenomena occur. This paper surveys the answers to these and other …