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implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …
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exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …
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labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages … labor force and rises the share of attached workers. Finally, our theory suggests that contrary to two-state models …
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group …
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implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …
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to the wages of older workers and the structure of wages more generally as the population ages has potentially important … solution depends, in part, on the wage rates that older workers command in labor markets. If the wages of older workers fall as …
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This paper presents a novel measure of labor market conditions based on micro data from a large business survey in Sweden. The indicator, relative labor shortages (RLS), is the ratio of respondents' quantitative assessment of labor shortages and current employment. Contrary to other surveybased...
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with theory, establishments with more procyclical wage movements over the business cycle have a more countercyclical hires …
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