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the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this … policy. -- Wages ; general equilibrium …
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labor market. In an environment of high uncertainty, risk averse and heterogeneous workers face a trade-off between wages … firm where they accept lower wages as a price for security. In this framework, wage arrears can be viewed as an element of …
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We augment the standard asymmetric learning model with costly effort. With this adjustment, wages become fully … wage controls and salary history bans. Permitting workers to disclose their wages to outside firms results in an …
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Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … exists, such that gains in aggregate productivity, or GDP per person, have resulted in higher wages for workers at the top …
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We use an extensive,matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...
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This paper reviews the problem of brain drain or skill migration from developing countries mostly to industrialized countries. Some case studies are presented to illustrate some of the major problems facing Africans today in not being able to utilize optimally the human as well as material...
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Recent empirical work reveals considerable heterogeneity in the use of technologies within industries, suggesting technology adoption depends on factors other than industry type. We present a model in which the factors that lead to heterogenous technology adoption play a key economic role in...
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discuss possible effects on labor productivity, wages, and human capital. We also show that the fast-growing dependency ratio …
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