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作者：Cullen, JB; Gruber, J
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has emphasized the program's effect on individual search behavior. This state-contingent income may also reduce the labor supply of family members during the unemployment spell. We investigate this question within the context of wives' labor supply responses to their husbands' unemployment spells. We find strong crowdout of this form of family self-insurance; our estimates imply chat fur each dollar of UI receipt wives earn up to 73 cents less. ...
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作者：Gustman, AL; Steinmeier, TL
作者单位：Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：A structural econometric model of retirement of dual-career couples is specified and estimated with panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. A coincidence of spouses retiring together, despite the younger ages of wives, suggests explicit efforts at coordination. The estimates suggest that one reason is a correlation of tastes for leisure. More important, each spouse, and perhaps husbands in particular, values retirement more once their spouse has retired. The opportuni...
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作者：Burgess, S; Lane, J; Stevens, D
作者单位：University of Bristol; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; American University; Stockholm University; University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
摘要：We utilize a large employer-level panel dataset to explore the links between gross job flows and gross worker flows. Our findings have relevance for models of job creation and job destruction, and labor reallocation. We find churning flows (the difference between worker and job flows at the level of the employer) to be high, pervasive, and highly persistent within employers, suggesting that they arise as a correlate of an equilibrium personnel policy. We find the dynamic relationship between j...
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作者：Zavodny, M
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA
摘要：Workers with limited English skills may suffer adverse effects when states declare English the official language. If employers believe official English laws allow or require them to adopt workplace English-only rules that lower the demand for limited-English-proficient workers, such laws may harm individuals who do not speak English well, rising data from the 1980 and 1990 censuses, I estimate whether the earnings of limited-English-proficient workers who live in states that adopted official E...
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作者：Hamilton, J; Thisse, JF; Zenou, Y
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Maine System; University of Maine Orono
摘要：We study imperfect competition in the labor market when both workers and firms are heterogeneous. When firms cannot observe workers' skill, firms pay workers equal wages, but workers absorb training costs. When firms can identify worker types, firms pay different net wages to different workers. Voters select the level of general education that is financed by a lump-sum tax. Workers are on average better off when firms can observe workers' skill for a given level of general human capital, but t...
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作者：Olsen, TE; Torsvik, G
作者单位：University of Bergen
摘要：We analyze the link between workers' discretion and incentives in an organization that lasts for several periods. In a long-lasting affiliation, it is possible for the principal to learn and update her beliefs about essential characteristics associated with either the job or the agent. This learning possibility has an important effect on the link between workers' discretion and incentives.
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作者：Oyer, P
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Sales quotas are a fixture of sales compensation plans and are often associated with a significant discrete bonus. This article shows that, under certain assumptions about salesperson utility and the distribution of sales outcomes, the optimal compensation is a discrete bonus for meeting a sales quota. The results are similar when the assumption of agent risk neutrality is relaxed. The model has implications for many moral hazard problems where the agent has a liability limitation and job-spec...
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作者：Lindbeck, A; Snower, DJ
作者单位：Stockholm University; University of London; Birkbeck University London
摘要：This article analyzes an important aspect of the contemporary reorganization of work within firms: the shift from Tayloristic organization (characterized by specialization by tasks) to holistic organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks, and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this restructuring process: advances in production technologies promoting technological task complementarities, advances in information technologies promoting informational task ...
