Relative wages, labor specialization and bargaining patterns

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Sánchez-Losada
1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben M. Andersen ◽  
Michael Christensen

ILR Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Devereux

The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded enjoyed faster wage growth than other workers. Moreover, wage growth was strongly related to employment changes in industries the individual was likely to move to: that is, workers' wage growth tended to be relatively fast if their skills suited them for entry into rapidly expanding industries, whether or not they actually moved between industries. The author uses the estimates to evaluate the effects of industry demand changes on within-cohort relative wages during the 1980s. He finds that changes in industrial composition can account for most of the within-cohort increase in the wages of women relative to men and about 30–50% of the increase in the relative wages of more educated groups within cohorts.


2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leora Friedberg ◽  
Michael T Owyang ◽  
Tara M Sinclair

Abstract Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. New evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar period. We develop a search model in which firms may offer tenure-based contracts like DB pensions to reduce the incidence of costly on-the-job search by workers. Either reduced search costs or an increase in the probability of job matches can, under fairly general conditions, lower the value of deterring search and the use of DB pensions.


2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bazen ◽  
Jean-Marie Cardebat
Keyword(s):  

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Galizzi ◽  
Kevin Lang
Keyword(s):  

2009 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ève CAROLI ◽  
Jérôme GAUTIÉ ◽  
Annie LAMANTHE

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (12) ◽  
pp. 3583-3625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jensen ◽  
Nolan H. Miller

In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow, and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware of the prices and quality of non-local firms. They therefore mostly buy locally, limiting firms’ potential market size (and competition). We explore this hypothesis using a natural experiment in the Kerala boat-building industry. As consumers learn more about non-local builders, high-quality builders gain market share and grow, while low-quality firms exit. Aggregate quality increases, as does labor specialization, and average production costs decrease. Finally, quality-adjusted consumer prices decline. (JEL D22, D83, L15, L25, L62, O12, O14)


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