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Worker flows and job flows behave differently over the business cycle. The authors investigate the sources of the differences by studying quantitative properties of a multiple-worker version of the search/matching model that features endogenous job separation and intra-firm wage bargaining....
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This study documents a general decline in the volatility of employment growth during the period 1956 to 2002 and examines its possible sources. The authors use a panel design that exploits the considerable state-level variation in volatility during the period. The roles of monetary policy, oil...
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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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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate disabled workers and outlaws discrimination against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase employment of the disabled, it also increases costs for employers. The net theoretical...
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A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics" of exporting plants and firms relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This paper asks whether good" firms become exporters or...
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Using detailed information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, we test the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for lower penalties for labor force interruptions. We find...
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women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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opportunities for substituting wages for employment in response to a change in the slope of the employer's labor demand function …. Larger union locals place greater emphasis on wages versus employment than smaller union locals …
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This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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