Relative wages, labor specialization and bargaining patterns

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Sánchez-Losada
Keyword(s):  
Relative Wages ◽  
Labor Specialization

Relative wages and employment fluctuations

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben M. Andersen ◽  
Michael Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Relative Wages ◽  
Employment Fluctuations

scholarly journals Effects of Industry Growth and Decline on Gender and Education Wage Gaps in the 1980S

ILR Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Devereux
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Industry Growth ◽  
Industrial Composition ◽  
Relative Wages ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Demand Changes

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.

scholarly journals Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leora Friedberg ◽  
Michael T Owyang ◽  
Tara M Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Private Pension ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Job Tenure ◽  
Relative Wages ◽  
Pension Coverage ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
General Conditions

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.

The impact of trade on the relative wages and employment of low skill workers in France

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

Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior

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

The French food-processing model: High relative wages and high work intensity

2009 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ève CAROLI ◽  
Jérôme GAUTIÉ ◽  
Annie LAMANTHE
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Relative Wages ◽  
High Work

scholarly journals Market Integration, Demand, and the Growth of Firms: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (12) ◽  
pp. 3583-3625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jensen ◽  
Nolan H. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
Boat Building ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
Average Production ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Labor Specialization

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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