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Kahn, Lisa B.; McEntarfer, Erika - 2014

Who fares worse in an economic downturn, low- or high-paying firms? Different answers to this question imply very different consequences for the costs of recessions. Using U.S. employer-employee data, we find that employment growth at low-paying firms is less cyclically sensitive. High-paying...

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Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality

Kahn, Lisa B.; McEntarfer, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives

Gibbs, Michael - 2017

At the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, a group of distinguished compensation researchers held a panel discussion … on the future of compensation research. Their remarks were compiled into an article published in this issue. Soon after … Lazear, Kevin J. Murphy & Canice Prendergast) doing compensation research; this article is the result. …

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New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.

Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar - 2018

Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a broad measure of real labor costs including such benefit expenditures has become countercyclical during 1982-2014, contrary to the conventional view that labor costs are...

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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - 2008

the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers …; yet, the literature has failed to address the role of non-wage compensation in explaining the motherhood wage gap despite … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

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New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Gap

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk : Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts

Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2004

contracts offer severance compensation and sometimes give notice before dismissal. Severance compensation smoothes consumption … exogenous unemployment compensation is sufficiently generous. …

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Job Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings

Kuhn, Moritz; Ploj, Gasper - 2020

Labor markets are characterized by large heterogeneity in job stability. Some workers hold lifetime jobs, whereas others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) data, we document a...

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Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along four dimensions related to the role of workers'...

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