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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer- Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001

A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage...

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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703327

Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting

Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive (negative) assortative matching, good workers are...

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A behavioral account of the labor market: the role of fairness concerns

Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Christian - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob R.; Xiang, Chong - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … same firm. We then briefly discuss the theories of offshoring, and survey the literature that examines the wage effects of …. Finally we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement. We highlight the recent …

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Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting

Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329156

A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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