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wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …
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explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …
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without a college education. Though wages and participation have fallen in tandem for this population, we argue that the …
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-level data on income, employment, unemployment, and the area's racial composition from the published volumes of the federal … blacks' income and employment that were economically significant and that may have been larger in the long run (1960 …
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find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …
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reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …
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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 … amenable to empirical analysis. A characterization of the wage and employment-setting process in unionized markets is adopted …
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