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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Aryal, Gaurab - 2020

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...

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Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search … theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using … rate and which is known to influence regional wages. Results show that when subjective perceptions overstate the …

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Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Fang, Tony; Hartley, John - 2022

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their …

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Wage Risk, Employment Risk and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias - 2017

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...

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A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Mittag, Nikolas - 2017

Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is computationally difficult, so simplifying assumptions that are likely to cause bias are often invoked to make...

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Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Bayer, Christian - 2018

Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both …

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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition

Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010

rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …

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Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle : Theory and Evidence

Feng, Shuaizhang - 2010

theory, substantiated by the new empirical evidence, suggests that it is not large firms, per se, but firms that hire better …

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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Kar, Saibal - 2011

We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...

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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle

Depew, Briggs - 2011

explanation of the pro-cyclicality of wages …

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