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of economic policies such as minimum wage laws. -- Fairness ; contracts ; wages ; effort ; experiments …
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shortages ; wage adjustments ; migrants …
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This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and provides links to internet resources. Topics...
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weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …
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, the government faces recruitment problems. The optimal steady-state wage premium depends mainly on the labour market … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers …
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a model is developed in which the labour market is described as a duopsony and the relation between wage and non … compensating differentials. In particular, while the wage dynamic related to workers shifting from a temporary contract to another … wage and commuting time persists, irrespective of the type of contract. -- atypical contracts ; oligopsony ; compensating …
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frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. The wage mechanism determines both the distribution of networks … that can arise and the number of matches on a given network. Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in … terms of network formation. Under complete recall (firms can go back and forth between all their candidates) only wage …
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We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the...
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As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...
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wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …
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