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externality, but entails commuting costs. Switching between modes of labor delivery is costly, and workers face idiosyncratic …
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The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey. The results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that...
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …
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We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e … beliefs about labor market tightness moderately raises support for union activity. Effect sizes are small as they imply that … counties over several decades. We find no systematic effect of changes in aggregate labor market tightness on union membership …
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rating acts as an automatic stabilizer in the labor market. We exploit the fact that penalties for layoffs vary by state … using detailed data on state tax schedules, and we measure whether firms react less to labor-demand shocks in the presence …. The results imply experience rating has a stabilizing influence on labor markets. Experience rating saved, for instance …
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, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early … the labor market remained surprisingly tight throughout the crisis, despite the dramatic job losses. By spring, 2022, the … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment …
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy...
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The conversion of brown office buildings to green apartments can contribute towards a solution to three pressing issues: oversupply of office in a hybrid-and-remote-work world, shortage of housing, and excessive greenhouse gas emissions. We propose a set of criteria to identify commercial office...
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