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Colloquium on U.S. wage trends in the 1980s: morning session: summary of discussion

Klitgaard, Thomas; Posen, Adam - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 33-34

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Inequality in labor market outcomes: contrasting the 1980s and earlier decades

Juhn, Chinhui; Murphy, Kevin M. - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 26-32

The increase in wage inequality during the 1980s was exceptional, but underlying demand and supply conditions showed relatively little contrast compared to previous decades. One possible explanation is that the increased demand for skills during the 1980s was unusually concentrated among the...

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Colloquium on U.S. wage trends in the 1980s: afternoon session: summary of discussion

Blomberg, S. Brock; Kock, Gabriel S.P. de - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 59-60

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The future path and consequences of the U.S. earnings/education gap

Levy, Frank - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 35-41

Both the growing college/high school earnings gap and the generally slow growth of real earnings have generated … frustration with the political system. in the short run the earnings gap is likely to remain at roughly its current level. Over …

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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...

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Youth Unemployment: Deja Vu?

Bell, David; Blanchflower, David - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2010

This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data....

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The Unions of the States

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report reviews unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce, and the wage and benefit advantage for union workers in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, using the most recent data available and focusing on the period 2003-2009. Pooling data from...

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Bend it like Beckham: Hours and Wages across Forty-Eight Countries in 1900

Huberman, Michael; Lewis, Frank - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2007

of wages and hours for roughly fifty countries in six continents that covers the period 1890-1900. The Report, which is … drawn from official (national) publications, gives information on normal or usual hours and earnings per week at the … role in the negative relation between wages and hours of work within countries, and that across countries higher average …

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Labour Market Effects of Eastern European Migration in Wales

Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2010

to a fall in wages or a rise in claimant unemployment in Wales between 2004 and 2006. In particular, we found no evidence … wages of the low-paid. If anything, we found a positive effect on the wages of higher paid workers and some weak evidence of …

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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O?Leary, Nigel; … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2009

Interpretation of the phenomenon of graduate overeducation remains problematical. In an attempt to resolve at least some of the issues this paper makes use of the panel element of the HILDA survey, distinguishing between four possible combinations of education/skills mismatch. For men we find a...

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