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earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
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To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective … several times larger than their costs, and would therefore lead to higher earnings and lower unemployment rates among the …
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This paper develops a simple competitive model of CEO pay. A large part of the rise in CEO compensation in the US economy is explained without assuming managerial entrenchment, mishandling of options, or theft. CEOs have observable managerial talent and are matched to assets in a competitive...
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has been trending upward during the past twenty years. The data also show that earnings from secondary jobs are, on … average, 27.8 percent of a multiple jobholder's total quarterly earnings. Multiple jobholding occurs at all levels of earnings …, with both higher- and lower-earnings multiple jobholders earning more than 25 percent of their total earnings from multiple …
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I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and …, earnings distribution statistics for the working age population have emphasized within-cohort disparities that are largest at … older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …
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There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics …. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the … show a lack of any significant long-term trend in male earnings volatility over the last 20-to-30+ years when differences …
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? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic …-induced losses to business earnings in 2020 were 16-19 percent for all business owners. Racial inequality increased in the pandemic …: Black business owners experienced larger negative impacts on business earnings of 12-14 percent relative to white business …
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credible bargaining are incorporated. Wage rigidity consistent with micro evidence that wages of job changers are more flexible …
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to men; and 3) An increase in the average earnings of those groups most affected by increased migration costs. Using data …
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