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Recruitment Restrictions and labor markets: evidence from the post-bellum U.S. south

Naidu, Suresh - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

This paper estimates the impacts of labor-mobility restrictions on job-transitions and wages in the postbellum U … agricultural wages. I present three different pieces of evidence. The first is a retrospective work history panel of farmers from … Jefferson County, Arkansas. The second is a state-year panel, using USDA agricultural wages as a dependent variable. The third …

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An Empirical Study of Strikes and Wages

Card, David - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1987

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Strikes, Wages and Private Information: An Empirical Study

McConnell, Sheena - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1987

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Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2011

This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...

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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

Fox, Jeremy T. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009

I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and whether the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970 to 1990. I use data on...

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The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

rely on state-level occupational licensing data. Workers who have higher levels of education are more likely to work in … on wages as do unions -- that is about 15 percent, but unlike unions which reduce variance in wages, licensing does not …

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Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature

Lawson, Nicholas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010

It would be hard, even today, to deny that labour unions are important economic institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so substantial. Interest in the economic analysis of unions was revived in the early 1980s, in large part by a paper by Ian...

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Exports and Wages: Discriminating between the Sources of Rents

Fontagné, Lionel; Mirza, Daniel - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 75 (2009) 1, pp. 35-61

<titre traitementparticulier="non">Abstract</titre> When do exports lead to rents? And when are they shared with employees? This paper proposes a double empirical test that deals with this question, based on a mix of rent sharing theories and Cournot Oligopoly. We find that most of the OECD exporting activities are associated with some...

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Fitting Equilibrium Search Models to Labor Market Data.

Bowlus, A.J.; Kiefer, N.M.; Neumann, G.R. - Department of Economics, Tippie College of Business - 1995

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Aboriginals as unwilling immigrants: Contact, assimilation and labour market outcomes

Kuhn, Peter; Sweetman, Arthur - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 2, pp. 331-355

Like immigrants, aboriginal populations' economic success may be enhanced by the acquisition of skills and traits appropriate to the "majority" culture in which they reside. Using 1991 Canadian Census data, we show that Aboriginal labour market success is greater for Aboriginals whose ancestors...

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