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In this paper we study whether or not transportation infrastructure disrupts local monopsony power in labor markets using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using panel data on manufacturing firms, we find that monopsony power in labor markets is reduced among firms near newly...
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at the occupation or industry level, implying that AI is currently substituting for humans in a subset of tasks but it is …
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, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …
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This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools have higher management quality, driven by much...
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others. This manipulation holds constant wages and piece rates, as well as human and physical capital. On cash-rich days …
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In a model with cheap talk, employers can send messages about their willingness to pay for higher ability workers, which job-seekers can use to direct their search and tailor their wage bid. Introducing such messages leads--under certain conditions--to an informative separating equilibrium which...
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Using confidential Census matched employer-employee earnings data we find that employees at more productive firms, and firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile of the pay distribution. This pay-performance...
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We constructed a time series of menu prices for the identifiable restaurants at which James Bond dined in France and the UK that yields one of the few international price series representing luxury services. This series enabled us to calculate a real exchange rate based on prices pertinent to...
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, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the location of the worker accounts for over a third of the variance in wages …. We also document that remote wages in local currency move almost one-for-one with the dollar exchange rate of the worker …'s country, and are highly sensitive to changes in the wages of foreign competitors. Finally, we provide a new measure on which …
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The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …
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