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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level

Merkl, Christian - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level …

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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias

Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …

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Job Ladders by Firm Wage and Productivity

Bertheau, Antoine; Vejlin, Rune - 2023

We investigate whether workers reallocate up firm productivity and wage job ladders, and the cyclicality of this process. We document that productivity is a better measure of the job ladder than the average wage, since high productivity firms relative to low poach more workers than high wage...

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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Gielen, Anne C. - 2007

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training. As a result, profit...

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Worker Overconfidence : Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2019

Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative...

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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality : Insights from Studies on Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2016

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...

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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...

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New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility

Colantone, Italo - 2019

We study how firms and industries adjust to increasing international trade in intermediate inputs. In particular, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on assortative...

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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

Burgess, Simon M. - 2019

A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...

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