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Bargaining and wage rigidity in a matching model for the US
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2015
The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match productivities, time to build vacancies and credible bargaining are incorporated. Wage rigidity...
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Nonprofit sector and part-time work : an analysis of employer-employee matched data of child care workers
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001654776
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Systems of Employee Representation : The US Report
Lobel, Orly - 2014
Although employee-representation systems coexist with a collective-bargaining framework in continental Europe for many years, US labor advocates have looked upon those representations systems with suspicion. The reasons for this suspicion are historical: US employee-representation systems have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064543
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Nonprofit sector and part-time work : an analysis of employer-employee matched data of child care workers
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405692
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The Great Recession, the Resulting Budget Shortfall, the 2010 Elections and the Attack on Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the United States
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2013
American public sector unions and collective bargaining have been subjected to a vicious attack under the auspices of balancing government budgets, promoting "equity" between private and public employees and limiting the impact of "special interests" on government policy. The American and world...
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Monopsony in the U.S. labor market
Yeh, Chen; Macaluso, Claudia; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162115
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Monopsony in the U.S. Labor Market
Yeh, Chen; Macaluso, Claudia; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295386
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Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing
Estevão, Marcelo M.; Lach, Saul - 2000
Several analysts claim that firms have been using more flexible work arrangements in order to contain the costly adjustment of labor to changes in economic conditions. In particular, temporary help supply (THS) employment has increased dramatically in the last ten years. However, there is only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170061
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States : The Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2012
This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and in the U.S. New research on labour market outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no controls, the labour market outcomes of the second...
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Artificial Intelligence and Technological Unemployment
Wang, Ping; Wong, Tsz-Nga - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
How large is the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on labor productivity and unemployment? This paper introduces a … labor-search model of technological unemployment, conceptualizing the generative aspect of AI as a learning … unemployment, or unbounded AI with sustained endogenous growth and little impact on employment. By calibrating to the U.S. data …
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