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Do employers provide insurance against low frequency shocks? Industry employment and industry wages

Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2005

between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … repeated cross-sectional data. The results imply that supply curves facing industries are elastic but upward sloping. …

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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar

Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … overall external orientation. Industries with low price-over-cost markups and those with a less skilled workforce exhibit …

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Union concessions in the 1980s

Bell, Linda A. - In: Quarterly Review (1989) Sum, pp. 44-58

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Family structure and sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes

Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - 2001

Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...

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Does immigration affect wages? A look at occupation-level evidence

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2003

Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill...

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Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice

Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002

This paper controls for the selection bias associated with occupational choice and the labor force participation decision in estimating the wage penalty for working in female-dominated occupations. Using data from the May 1979 and the April 1993 supplements to the Current Population Survey, the...

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Procyclical real wages under nominal-wage contracts with productivity variations

Hoehn, James G. - In: Economic Review (1988) Q IV, pp. 11-23

A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a model that introduces productivity factors into nominal-wage contracts.

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Employment distortions under sticky wages and monetary policies to minimize them

Hoehn, James G. - In: Economic Review (1989) Q II, pp. 22-34

A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller distortions than do policies that target output or money.

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The employment and wage effects of oil price shocks: a sectoral analysis

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 1991

substantial changes in employment shares and relative wages across industries. However, we find little evidence that oil price …

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The relation between skill levels and the cyclical variability of employment, hours and wages

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 1991

countercyclical bias in aggregate wage measures. We find substantial differences across industries in the cyclical variation of …

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