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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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Immigrating into a recession : evidence from family migrants to the U.S.
Barsbai, Toman; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Christoph - 2022
We analyze how economic conditions at the time of arrival affect the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants in the U.S. Our identification strategy exploits long waiting times for family-sponsored immigration visas that decouple the migration decision from economic conditions at the...
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Wage rigidity and job creation
Haefke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; van Rens, Thijs - 2009
Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Van Rens, Thijs - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863655
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Real wages and the cycle : the view from the frequency domain
Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2001
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us...
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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540790
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The production and stock of college graduates for U.S. States
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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A Structural Model of Tenure and Specific Investments
Teulings, Coen N.; van der Ende, Martin A. - 2000
Though a lot of work has been done on the distribution of job tenures, we are still uncertain about its main determinants.In this paper, we stress random shocks to match productivity after the start of an employment relation.The specificity of investment makes hiring and separation decisions...
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