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作者：Ransom, Michael R.; Oaxaca, Ronald L.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; University of Arizona
摘要：In the context of certain models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. We use this strategy to estimate the elasticity of labor supply for men and women workers at a chain of grocery stores, identifying separation elasticities from differences in wages and separation rates across different job titles within the firm. We estimate that women have lower elasticities, so a Robinson-style monopsony model ca...
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作者：Gathmann, Christina; Schoenberg, Uta
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Mannheim; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：This article studies how portable skills accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure empirically the transferability of skills across occupations. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor market skills are more portable than previously considered. We find that individuals move to occupations with similar task requirements and that the distance of moves declines wit...
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作者：Yamaguchi, Shintaro
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：This article constructs and estimates a model of wage bargaining with on-the-job search to explore three different components of wages: general human capital, match-specific capital, and outside options. As the workers find better job opportunities, the current employer has to compete with outside firms to retain them. This between-firm competition results in wage growth even when productivity remains the same. The model is estimated by a simulated minimum distance estimator and data from the ...
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作者：Buchinsky, Moshe; Leslie, Phillip
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
摘要：We present a dynamic model of individuals' educational investments that allows us to explore alternative modeling strategies for forecasting future wage distributions. The key innovation we propose is an approach to forecasting that relies only on the information that would be available at the actual time decisions are made and which incorporates the role of parameter uncertainty into the decision-making process. We compare the performance of our method with alternative models of forecasting b...
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作者：Boustan, Leah Platt; Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Arizona; University of California System; University of California Merced
摘要：The Great Depression offers a unique laboratory to investigate the causal impact of migration on local labor markets. We use variation in the generosity of New Deal programs and extreme weather events to instrument for migrant flows to and from U. S. cities. In-migration had little effect on the hourly earnings of existing residents. Instead, in-migration prompted some residents to move away and others to lose weeks of work or access to relief jobs. For every 10 arrivals, we estimate that 1.9 ...
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作者：Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Three states recently introduced universal prekindergarten programs offering free preschool to all age-eligible children; policy makers in many other states are promoting similar programs. Using restricted-access data from the Census, together with birthday-based eligibility cutoffs, I employ a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the effects of universal pre-K availability on overall preschool enrollment and maternal labor supply. Universal pre-K availability increases statewide pre...
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作者：Hartzell, Jay C.; Parsons, Christopher A.; Yermack, David L.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; New York University
摘要：We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43-year panel data set. The church appears to use pay-for-performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately 3% of the incremental revenue from membership increases. Ministers receive the strongest rewards for attracting new parishioners who switch from other congregations within their denomination. Monetary incentives are weaker in sett...
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作者：Falch, Torberg
作者单位：Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要：Monopsonistic wage-setting power requires that the supply of labor directed toward individual establishments is upward sloping. This study utilizes institutional features to identify the supply curve. The elasticity of labor supply is estimated using data for the Norwegian teacher labor market in a period where the only variation in the wage level was determined centrally and with information on whether there is excess demand or not at the school level. In fixed-effects models, the supply elas...
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作者：Fox, Jeremy T.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This article estimates worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. I use data on engineers across Swedish private sector firms to estimate the relative importance of employer wage policies and switching costs in a dynamic programming, discrete choice model of employer choice. The differentiated firms are modeled in employer characteristic space, and each firm has its own age-wage profile. A majority of engineers have mode...
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作者：Coffey, Bentley; Maloney, M. T.
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：There is ample evidence that incentive-pay structures, such as tournaments, result in increased performance. Is this due to selection or increased individual effort, and is any increased individual effort caused by pecuniary incentives or merely thirst for the thrill of victory (TOV)? Prior literature has not separated the different effects. We look at performance in horse and dog racing and find that only horses, controlled by jockeys during the race, exhibit performance corresponding to pecu...
