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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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There are significant differences in the dynamics of employment over the business cycle between young and old manufacturing plants. Young plants are more sensitive to aggregate disturbances, and they respond to them along different margins. We interpret these differences as reflecting greater...
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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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some industries to others - may help explain the stalled growth in jobs. …
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We compare top management compensation among prospector, defender, and analyzer strategic types, and the effects of differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top management group more than did analyzers. They were...
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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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industries with very good and very poor outcomes highlights the importance of addressing "special causes" of industry performance …
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worker remains at the same job for two years and various measures of technology usage across industries. Using data from the …
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