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higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...
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implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …
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, including those that may influence worker wages and are correlated with observed occupational fatality risks. This estimator …
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We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a...
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correlations between labor market tightness and wages weakened noticeably. This change was accompanied in a break in the … relationship between wages and prices, so wage inflation has become a much less important determinant of price inflation …
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strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
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