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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. And in Japan

Mincer, Jacob - 2011

The starting point of this study is the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also...

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …

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A Reconsideration of the Effects of Unionism on Relative Wages and Employment in the United States, 1920-80

Pencavel, John H. - 2010

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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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Shimer, Robert - 2010

reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …

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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Chatterji, Pinka - 2010

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

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The Firm's Role in Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2019

We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...

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The Impact of Early Investments in Urban School Systems in the United States

Schmick, Ethan - 2019

resources significantly increased educational attainment and wages later in life, particularly for the children of unskilled …

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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kroft, Kory - 2015

that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market …, such as competitive models with fixed or flexible wages and models with matching frictions. Our results show that the …

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David L. - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …

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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal About Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?

Guvenen, Fatih - 2015

We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...

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