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作者：Entorf, H; Gollac, M; Kramarz, F
作者单位：University of Wurzburg
摘要：We study the effect of: new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on individuals and on their firms. As in the United States, we show that computer users are better paid than nonusers (15%-20% more). But these workers were already better compensated before the introduction of the NTs. Total returns to computer use amount to 2%. Measurement errors do not affect our estimates. Furthermore, computer users are protected from job losses as long as bad busi...
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作者：Booth, AL; Frank, J
作者单位：University of Essex; University of London; Royal Holloway University London
摘要：Jobs with performance-related pay (PRP) attract workers of higher ability and induce workers to provide greater effort. We construct an integrated model of effort and sorting that clarifies the distinction between observable and unobservable ability and the relationship between earnings and productivity. Predictions are tested against data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The PRP raises wages by 9% for men and 6% for women. Theoretical calculations show that these estimated earn...
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作者：Goux, D; Maurin, E
摘要：We estimate interindustry wage differentials using new French longitudinal data that allow a tracking of workers and their firms over time; We find that; when measured on a cross-sectional basis, they primarily reflect the interindustry variations in unmeasured labor quality. However, interindustry wage differentials are only a minor component of interfirm wage differentials. The average differential in wages paid to the same workers by different firms is about 20%-30%. In a given industry, wa...
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作者：Hellerstein, JK; Neumark, D; Troske, KR
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：We use a unique new data set that combines data on individual workers and their employers to estimate marginal productivity differentials among different types of workers. We then compare these to estimated relative wages, leading to new evidence on productivity-based and nonproductivity-based explanations of the determination of wages. Among our findings are (1) the higher pay of prime-aged workers (aged 35-54) and older workers (aged 55+) is reflected in higher point estimates of their relat...
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作者：Holzer, H; Neumark, D
作者单位：Michigan State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We use microlevel data on employers and employees from a sample of establishments in four major metropolitan areas in the United States to investigate whether Affirmative Action leads to the hiring of minority or female employees who are less qualified. Our measures of qualifications include the educational attainment of the workers hired and a variety of outcome measures related to worker performance on the job. We find evidence of lower educational qualifications among women and minorities h...
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作者：Fallick, BC; Hassett, KA
摘要：Using data on union certification elections, we estimate the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior. Employing both a standard q model and an investment surprises technique, we find that union certification significantly reduces investment in the year following the election. We find that a winning certification election has, on average, about the same effect on investment in the year following the event as would- given the elasticity measures taken from the public finance literat...
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作者：Jimenez-Martin, S
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：This article analyzes wage changes with an unbalanced panel from the Spanish Collective Bargaining in Large Firms survey. Central to the analysis are the joint determination of strike and wage outcomes and, in particular, the estimation of the slope of the wage concession curve. I control for the possible endogeneity of strike variables in the wage equation and suggest two sets of instruments: lagged strike outcomes or reduced-form predictions of the strike variables. When controlling for endo...
