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Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Personnel economics drills deeply into the firm to study human resource management practices like compensation, hiring practices, training, and teamwork. Many questions are asked. Why should pay vary across workers within firms--and how "compressed" should pay be within firms? Should firms pay...

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Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers

Rosen, Harvey; Bewerunge, Philipp - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use a sample of full-time workers over 50 years of age from the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With...

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Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States

Hines, James R. Hines, Jr.; Felix, R. Alison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

unions are paid more than their non-union counterparts, and this difference is greater in low-tax locations, reflecting that … unions and employers share tax savings associated with low tax rates. In 2000 the difference between average union and non …

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The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality

Lemieux, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The paper reviews recent developments in the literature on wage inequality, with a particular focus on why inequality growth has been particularly concentrated in the top end of the wage distribution over the last 15 years. Several possible institutional and demand-side explanations are...

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Falling Union Membership and Rising Wage Inequality: What's the Connection?

Card, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

have fallen for most groups, with larger declines among the lowest-wage workers. I estimate that the decline in unions … membership mask a sharp divergence between the private sector, where unions have been declining, and the public sector, where … union membership rates have actually risen for most groups. Calculations by sector suggest that unions have been a …

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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions negotiated in the metal-working and printing sectors. These reductions have continued through 1995, and were followed by reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to...

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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...

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Micro-evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Dobbelaere, Sabien; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare industry differences in rent-sharing...

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Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

Autor, David; Gruber, Jonathan; Duggan, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We provide a detailed analysis of the incidence, duration and determinants of claims made on private Long Term Disability (LTD) policies using a database of approximately 10,000 policies and 1 million workers from a major LTD insurer. We document that LTD claims rates are much lower than claims...

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Racial Disparities in Savings Behavior for a Continuously Employed Cohort

Kuan, Kai Yuan; Cullen, Mark R.; Modrek, Sepideh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The wealth gap has reached record highs. At the same time there has been substantial proliferation of 401(k) savings accounts as the dominant retirement savings vehicle, and these accounts make up an increasing proportion of overall wealth. In this paper we examine 401(k) saving behavior of...

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