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作者：Dunne, T; Foster, L; Haltiwanger, J; Troske, KR
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Using establishment-level data, we shed light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over recent decades. Our findings are: (1) the between-plant component of wage dispersion is an important and growing part of total wage dispersion; ( 2) much of the between-plant increase in wage dispersion is within industries; (3) the between-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over recent decades; an...
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作者：van den Berg, GJ; van der Klaauw, B; van Ours, JC
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Tinbergen Institute; Tilburg University
摘要：In the Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search effort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporary benefit reduction can be imposed. This article investigates the effect of such sanctions on the transition rate from welfare to work using a unique set of rich register data on welfare recipients. We find that the imposition of sanctions substan...
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作者：Campolieti, M
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：This article examines the effects of a change in the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan (C/QPP) disability benefits on the labor supply of older Canadian workers. I obtain my estimates by exploiting a large increase in benefits that only occurred in the QPP program, which only operates in Quebec, while benefits in the CPP program, which operates in the rest of Canada, were unaffected. Unlike the existing estimates from the United States, as well as earlier Canadian obtained by Gruber, I find that disa...
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作者：Audas, R; Barmby, T; Treble, J
作者单位：University of Aberdeen; Memorial University Newfoundland; Swansea University
摘要：Using the personnel records of a large British financial sector employer we investigate how workers respond to remuneration differences and luck in the promotion system. The results confirm that workers respond to larger remuneration spreads by working harder. Increased certainty in the promotion process also has this effect. There appears to be no difference between men's and women's reactions to promotion incentives. Gender differences in the raw data therefore appear not due to incentives. ...
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作者：Mani, A; Mullin, CH
作者单位：Williams College
摘要：We model the endogenous emergence of social perceptions about occupations and their impact on occupational choice. In particular, an individual's social approval increases with his community's perception of his skill in his chosen career. These perceptions vary across communities because individuals better assess the skill of those in occupations similar to their own. Such imperfect assessment can distort choices away from comparative advantage. When skill distributions differ across occupatio...
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作者：Ahituv, A; Tienda, M
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Princeton University
摘要：We examine the empirical relationship between early employment activity and school continuation decisions for young American women using a dynamic, sequential discrete-choice framework that estimates schooling, labor supply, and birth decisions jointly, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of these life cycle decisions. That the rate of school withdrawal increases as work intensity rises helps explain the higher departure rates of Hispanic girls from secondary school an...
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作者：Kugler, AD
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Pompeu Fabra University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne; Universite de Toulouse
摘要：This article provides theoretical and empirical analyses of a firing costs model with adverse selection. Our theory suggests that, as firing costs increase, firms increasingly prefer hiring employed workers, who are less likely to be lemons. Estimates of re-employment probabilities from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth support this prediction. Unjust-dismissal provisions in U. S. states reduce the re-employment probabilities of unemployed workers relative to employed workers. Consiste...
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作者：Baker, GP; Hall, BJ
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We develop a model that clarifies how to measure CEO incentive strength and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. The crucial parameter is shown to be the elasticity of CEO productivity with respect to firm size. We find that CEO marginal products rise significantly with firm size (confirming Rosen's conjecture that CEOs of large firms have a chain letter effect on firm performance), and overall CEO incentives are roughly co...
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作者：Manacorda, M
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article uses Survey of Households' Income and Wealth microdata to investigate the role the Scala Mobile played in the initial fall and subsequent rise in earnings inequality in Italy between 1977 and 1993. The Scala Mobile was a wage indexation mechanism granting the same absolute wage increase to all employees as prices rose, thereby potentially compressing wage differentials. Over time, the potential equalizing effect of this mechanism fell. This article argues that the rise in inequali...
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作者：Bertrand, M
作者单位：Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Does import competition alter the extent to which employers, after negotiating workers' wages upon hire, subsequently shield those wages from external labor-market conditions? If increased competition induces a switch away from these wage implicit agreements, then (1) the sensitivity of workers' wages to the current unemployment rate should increase as competition increases and (2) the sensitivity of workers' wages to the unemployment rate prevailing upon hire should decrease. Using exchange-r...
