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The Impact of Tradeon Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small?

Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2006

of trade on relative wages …

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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? : New Evidence From German Micro Data

Prasad, Eswar - 2003

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from …

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The Relation Between Skill Levels and the Cyclical Variability of Employment, Hours, and Wages

Keane, Michael P. - 1993

wages for skilled and unskilled workers. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that, at the aggregate level, skilled and … unskilled workers are subject to essentially the same degree of cyclical variation in wages. However, important differences …

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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility : Evidence From Brazil

Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2012

institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …

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Technological Change, Relative Wages, and Unemployment

Aizenman, Joshua - 1994

This paper examines the effect of skill-biased technological change on the structure of wages, the composition of …

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Dissecting Saving Dynamics : Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects

Carroll, Christopher - 2012

We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious ‘buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the...

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A Cross-Country Analysis of the Tax-Push Hypothesis

Padoa-Schioppa, Fiorella - 1992

This paper presents a microeconomic theoretical model of union optimizing behavior which is then used to test the relevance of the tax-push hypothesis for wage formation in nine Western European countries. Two factors—the compensation and the progressivity effects—are shown by the model to...

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Wages, Profitability, and Growth in a Small Open Economy

Chadha, Bankim - 1990

This paper examines issues raised by the evolution of a rapidly growing small open economy—Singapore—from a labor-intensive, low-technology production base to a capital-intensive, high-technology, knowledge-and-skill-intensive emphasis as it approached the limits of its resource constraints...

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Quantifying the Impact of Tradeon Wages : The Role of Nontraded Goods

Tokarick, Stephen - 2002

-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade … widening wage gap. Also, changes in total factor productivity had a small effect on relative wages. The major factor behind the … presents estimates of the effect of trade on wages by calculating what wage rates would be under autarky. The results show that …

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Wage Centralization, Union Bargaining, and Macroeconomic Performance

McHugh, James - 2002

This paper addresses two questions. First, under what circumstances will a centralized wage-bargaining system offer higher output and employment than a decentralized system? Second, what is the relationship between the degree of wage centralization and inflation? The paper argues that...

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