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The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …
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We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment which extends the...
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underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …
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Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
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(GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study … strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by … union presence variable) on wages in Ghana. We employ the Heckman Selection Model and quantile regression technique to …
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Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay...
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wages of workers present from startup increase after former MNE workers join domestic firms. Likewise, there is no …
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