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作者：Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; National Bureau of Economic Research; William & Mary; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：We specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market networks based on residential proximity, in determining the establishments at which people work. Using matched employer-employee data at the establishment level, we measure the importance of these network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and measures of skill. The evidence indicates that these types of labor market networks do exist and play an important role in determining the establishments where...
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作者：Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter
作者单位：University of Bonn; University of Klagenfurt; University of Vienna; University of Warsaw; Warsaw School of Economics; University of Klagenfurt
摘要：We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of coworkers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort but also from comparing his earnings with those of the high-productivity worker, his response to the sensing of relative deprivation is to...
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作者：Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio
作者单位：University of Cape Town; University of Ottawa
摘要：We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men have been employed at some time with an employer for which their father also worked, and 6%-9% have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at the very top of the earnings distribution, and to the presence of self-employment income and the number of employers with which the father has had direct contact. It has an important influence on nonli...
