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-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …
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-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …
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This paper tests some empirical implications of the general human capital model's explanation of rising wage profiles. At the individual level, the model implies that there will be a negative relationship between the initial wage level and wage growth of young, inexperienced workers. At the...
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before and after takeovers. we investigate whether proxies for extramarginal wages drop after hostile takeovers. The ex post …
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We construct a prediction model for testing the hypothesis that firms with employees earning extramarginal wages … multinomial logit models. Variables related to proxies for the magnitude of extramarginal wages payments, plus other firm …
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We investigate the impact of union strength on changes in nonunion wages and employment. The prevailing model in this … area is the threat model, which predicts that increases in union strength cause increases in nonunion wages and decreases … threat) are associated with increases in the nonunion wage. Furthermore, increases in union wages appear to decrease, rather …
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Interindustry wage differentials in wage regressions estimated for individuals have been interpreted as evidence consistent with efficiency wage models. A principal competing explanation is that these differentials are generated by differences across workers in unobserved ability. This paper...
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, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or … motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables in wage …
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goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common …
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productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …
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