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作者：VanReenen, J
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article uses British firm-level panel data on actual innovative activity drawn from different statistical sources to identify the effect of technical change on jobs. Previous work tends to find positive associations of proxies for technical change and employment, but such studies suffer from various statistical drawbacks. In this study, even when one controls for fixed effects, dynamics, and endogeneity, innovations have a positive and significant effect on employment, which persists over...
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作者：Bronars, SG; Famulari, M
摘要：We estimate employer-specific wage, tenure, and wage growth differentials using a unique Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey of full-time, white-collar workers. Employer wage and tenure differentials, conditional on worker characteristics, are substantial in these data. Education, potential experience, and tenure are highly correlated within an establishment. High-wage establishments generally employ higher quality workers, and the most skilled men and professionals typically work ...
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作者：Hildreth, AKG; Oswald, AJ
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：A central question in labor economics and macroeconomics is whether the textbook competitive model provides an adequate representation of the labor market. Using longitudinal data on companies and establishments, this article suggests that it may not. As predicted by rent-sharing models of the labor market, changes in profitability are shown to feed through into long-run changes in wages. These are not temporary wage effects and are not driven by the unionized workplaces in the data. The artic...
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作者：Gronau, R
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作者：Rosen, S
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作者：Barron, JM; Gjerde, KP
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We investigate the role of peer pressure in influencing the optimal incentive scheme offered to workers engaged in team production. We develop an agency model of peer policing to identify factors that affect the extent of mutual monitoring. As the principal must compensate workers for their monitoring efforts and the costs that peer pressure imposes on workers, introducing peer pressure alters the optimal compensation package. We establish conditions under which the principal reduces the margi...
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作者：Diebold, FX; Neumark, D; Polsky, D
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University
摘要：Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall. We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor markets, using data assembled from the sequence of Current Population Survey job tenure supplements. There have been relative declines in job stability for some of the groups that experienced the sharpest declines ...
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作者：Shin, K
摘要：Intersectoral shocks require resource reallocation across sectors while intrasectoral shocks require resource reallocation within sectors. A crucial difference between these shocks is that the former require much higher adjustment costs than the latter. Using accounting data to calculate returns on capital in manufacturing industries, I generate proxies for these shocks. I find that the magnitude of intrasectoral shocks is much greater than that of intersectoral shocks but intersectoral shocks...
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作者：Baker, M
摘要：Using U.S. panel data on adult males, I compare the ''profile heterogeneity model'' of earnings dynamics, in which the earnings/experience profile varies across individuals, to a competing model in which earnings ''has a unit root.'' The latter specification enjoys increasing popularity among researchers. My analysis questions this favor, suggesting the profile heterogeneity model provides a more consistent representation of the data. I also provide new estimates of the variation in earnings g...
