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The causes and economic consequences of envy
Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386
In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...
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Essays on careers in US labor markets : the interaction of internal and external labor markets
Kahn, Lisa B. - 2008
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What's Up with U.S. Wage Growth and Job Mobility?
Danninger, Stephan - 2016
-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new … wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve - the empirical relationship between wage growth and …
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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market : Evidence from U.S. Cities
Bleakley, C. Hoyt - 2019
raising both wages and returns to experience in denser areas …
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Sources of Earnings Instability : Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Flabbi, Luca; Leonardi, Marco - 2021
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution...
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality : empirical evidence from three countries
Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012
Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....
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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting : threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …
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Occupational and industrial mobility in the United States, 1969-93
Parrado, Eric (contributor); Caner, Asena (contributor);  … - 2005
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate occupational and industrial mobility of individuals over the 1969-1980 and 1981-1993 periods in the U.S. We find that workers changed both occupations and industries more frequently in the later period. For example, occupational mobility...
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Not much bounce in the springboard : on the mobility of low pay workers
Pacheco, Gail; Plum, Alexander T.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2020
only uncovered using within year variation in wages to reveal intensity of labour market attachment. …
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