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作者：BOUND, J; BROWN, C; DUNCAN, GJ; RODGERS, WL
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This article investigates error properties of survey reports of labor market variables. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Validation Study, a two-wave panel survey of workers employed by a large firm that shared its detailed payroll records. Individuals' reports of annual earnings are fairly accurate. Errors are negatively related to true earnings, reducing bias due to measurement error when earnings are used as an independent variable. Biases are moderately larger for changes i...
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作者：PERACCHI, F; WELCH, F
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：We use the Current Population Survey to describe what we believe are the most salient aspects of labor force behavior of older men and women during the last 2 decades. First, we show that early retirement has increased dramatically, and this trend continued through the 1980s. Second, we show that the factors that most sharply distinguish propensities toward early retirement are those usually associated with low wages. Third, we show that trends in reduced participation for older men parallel t...
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作者：GRAMM, CL; SCHNELL, JF
摘要：This study examines the difficult choice faced by members of a striking bargaining unit between withholding labor or crossing the picket line in violation of the prevailing behavioral norm. Using duration analysis, we test a model of crossing behavior using data on individual football players during the 1987 National Football League strike. A notable finding is that nonwhite players are less willing to cross the picket line if their team union representative is also nonwhite. Willingness to cr...
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作者：BAKER, M; BENJAMIN, D
摘要：In this article we examine the economic assimilation of immigrants to Canada. We provide new evidence on immigrants who arrived in the 1970s and document an increase in the dispersion of labor market outcomes across immigrants of different vintages over time. Our results confirm U.S. evidence of ''permanent'' differences across immigrant cohorts. What distinguishes the Canadian experience is small or negative rates of assimilation for most cohorts over the sample period. Finally, we test the o...
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作者：SWAIM, P; PODGURSKY, M
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：Following permanent layoffs most women search for new jobs, but some withdraw from the labor force. We develop a joint model of the choice to undertake postdisplacement job search and unemployment durations for searchers and estimate it, using data from the 1988 Displace Worker Survey. Maximum likelihood estimates of this ''split-population'' model show that labor force withdrawal is an important factor explaining the distribution of postdisplacement jobless spells. The model also allows us to...
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作者：MACLEOD, WB; MALCOMSON, JM; GOMME, P
作者单位：University of Southampton; Simon Fraser University
摘要：Wage and unemployment responses to changes in economic environment are compared for efficiency wage and frictional models. Changes in aggregate demand, persistence of job-specific shocks, cost of living, and unemployment benefits are considered. Wages and unemployment move in the same direction in the two models, except that an upward shift in aggregate labor demand can reduce the real wage in the efficiency wage, but not the frictional, model. In a numerical simulation calibrated to U.S. data...
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作者：CRAMTON, PC; TRACY, JS
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：We study wage bargaining in which the union is uncertain about the firm's willingness to pay and threat payoffs vary over time. Strike payoffs change as replacement workers are hired, as strikers find temporary jobs, and as inventories or strike funds run out. We find that bargaining outcomes are substantially altered if threat payoffs vary. If dispute costs increase in the long run, then dispute durations are longer, settlement rates are lower, and wages decline more slowly during the short r...
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作者：FREEMAN, RB
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作者：MCELROY, MB
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作者：ROSEN, S
