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This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than...
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the estimated parameter elasticities of wages with respect to labour productivity, value added and consumer prices, taxes … prices in the formation of wages in the seventies and eighties was taken over by labour productivity in the US and …
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, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the US. Based on the estimated parameters, we derive time-varying elasticities of wages …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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We document a clear downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend dates to at least the early 1980s if not somewhat earlier. Next we pull together evidence on a variety of hypotheses that might explain this downward...
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We document a clear downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend dates to at least the early 1980s if not somewhat earlier. Next we pull together evidence on a variety of hypotheses that might explain this downward...
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate …
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aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …
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estimates obtained from vector auto regression (VAR) models consisting of hours, employment, output and wages in the … adjustment of output, productivity and employment in the manufacturing sector. Impulse responses are constructed using parameter … identified in 1995. Impulse responses are used to contrast the relative size of productivity, output and employment adjustments …
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