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Standard economic and compensation theories suggest that voluntary turnover should decline when a firm pays wages that … support this prediction. Using a fixed effects estimator to control for job-specific characteristics, I find that the wages … elasticity of turnover with respect to alternative wages indicate that higher wage rates do not pay for themselves through lower …
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, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …
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Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies a 2011 reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. I show that, following the reform, some districts switched to flexible compensation and...
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This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For …
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it did not narrow the gender gap in pre-layoff wages. Our results suggest that reduced pay flexibility may help displaced …
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firms to pay differentially high wages. We estimate individual worker hold-up power by occupation using the effect of worker … permanent firm productivity innovations to wages, supporting the main model predictions. Accounting for heterogeneity in hold …) hold-up power decreases the responsiveness of wages to labor market slack …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343658
setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348052
Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...
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