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Goldberg, Linda - 2001

implications of exchange rates, reporting that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment. We offer … the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job turnover and the strong consequences this has for … the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers who remain with the same employer experience …

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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share

Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2019

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group …

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Borjas, George J. - 2003

wages by 3 to 4 percent …

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper examines the relationship between price growth and skill intensity across 150 manufacturing industries between 1989 and 1995. There are two main findings. First, wage growth and intermediate goods price increases are passed through to final product prices roughly in proportion to...

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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …

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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India

Hasan, Rana - 2003

Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....

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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply With Coordinated Working Times

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...

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In Search of Labor Demand

Beaudry, Paul - 2014

reflects the congestion externalities predicted by the search literature. Also, holding wages constant, an increase in the …

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