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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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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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of wages and status by Robert Frank …
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We analyze the sources of changes in the distribution of hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the … annual hours of work and estimating a nonseparable model of wages which uses a control function to account for selection … distribution. We decompose changes in the distribution of wages into composition, structural and selection effects. Composition …
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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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Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
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Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
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I document the comovement of the skill premium with the differential employer size wage premium between high- and low-skill workers in U.S. manufacturing during the postwar era. For the baseline specification, i.e., establishments with at least 500 employees categorized as large employers and...
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We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in … decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working hours and estimating a nonseparable model of wages. We decompose … changes in the wage distribution into composition, structural and selection effects.Composition effects have increased wages …
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