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Do Large Modern Retailers Pay Premium Wages?

Lafontaine, Francine; Cardiff-Hicks, Brianna; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

With malls, franchise strips and big-box retailers increasingly dotting the landscape, there is concern that middle-class jobs in manufacturing in the U.S. are being replaced by minimum wage jobs in retail. Retail jobs have spread, while manufacturing jobs have shrunk in number. In this paper,...

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Spurring growth and closing gaps through digitalisation in a post-COVID world: Policies to LIFT all boats

Pisu, Mauro - 2021

has the opportunity to acquire and upgrade the skills needed to thrive in a digital world; Intangibles finance for the …

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Do larger firms have higher markups?

Mertens, Matthias; Mottironi, Bernardo - 2023

Several models posit a positive cross-sectional correlation between markups and firm size, which, among others, characterizes misallocation, factor shares, and gains from trade. Yet, taking labor market power into account in markup estimation, we show that larger firms have lower markups. This...

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Chapter 20. The Effects of Technical Change on Labor Market Inequalities

Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - 2005

extent of unionization, and the degree of centralization of bargaining. To account for the U.S.–Europe differences, we use a …

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LOVE OF VARIETY AND SCALE IMPLICATIONS: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION

ZHANG, YONGSHENG; ZHAO, XUEYAN - In: Division of Labor & Transaction Costs (DLTC) 01 (2006) 02, pp. 185-201

Following the empirical work of Jones (1995a,b) that test the scale effects predicted by the AK models and the R&D based models, this paper tests the scale effects of a major new trade model, the Krugman (1979) version of the Dixit-Stiglitz (1977) model, using the Yang-Heijdra (1993) formula for...

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Chapter 33 Firm size and wages

Oi, Walter Y.; Idson, Todd L. - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part B, (pp. 2165-2214). 1999

Jobs differ along many dimensions including firm size. The wage gap due to firm size of 35% is comparable to the gender wage gap of 36% for men over women and greater than the wage gap of 14% for whites over black employees. The size-wage premium is larger for men and varies across industries....

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The determinants of labor market earnings in a small Caribbean island:the case of Dominica

Reilly, Barry; Bellony, Annelle - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2009) 1, pp. 65-85

This paper uses the Labor Force Survey (LFS) from 1999 to investigate the labor market earnings determination process … in the small Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Given the interval coded nature of the earnings data reported for the …

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The effect of activation on the post-activation civilian earnings of reservists

Loughran, David S.; Klerman, Jacob A. - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 18-26

the hardships of activation is the possibility that reservists might suffer an earnings loss following their period of … activation on the post-activation civilian earnings of reservists employing administrative data on earnings and periods of … activation. Our results indicate that reserve activations lead to moderate losses in civilian earnings in the year immediately …

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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood

Bjerk, David - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 110-122

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 25-40

Whereas a large literature has shown the importance of early life health for adult socioeconomic outcomes, there is little evidence on the importance of adolescent health. We contribute to the literature by studying the impact of adolescent health status on adult labor market outcomes using a...

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