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- 09 May 2017
- News
The Minimum Wage Eats Restaurants
- 24 Apr 2017
- News
Mediocre Restaurants Lose Out as Minimum Wages Rise
- 25 Feb 2014
- News
Is The Gap's Minimum Wage Hike Good Retail Politics?
- 2008
- Working Paper
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998)...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13755, February 2008.
- 12 Jan 2016
- Video
Get Paid What You’re Worth: Obtaining Accurate Wage Information
- Research Summary
Inflation Uncertainty and the Wage Bargain
Joint work with Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Trade unions often seem to behave in a more militant fashion when inflation rises. We provide the first theory as to why this should be so. We argue that uncertainty about the rate of inflation... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Might Cost Some Workers
- Article
The Wage Policy of a Firm
By: George P. Baker, Michael Gibbs and Bengt Holmstrom
Baker, George P., Michael Gibbs, and Bengt Holmstrom. "The Wage Policy of a Firm." Quarterly Journal of Economics 109, no. 4 (November 1994).
- November 2010
- Article
Beyond the Deal: Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign'
While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article characterizes the (new) concept of a "negotiation campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Deal;
Management Practices and Processes;
Value;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Sales;
Partners and Partnerships;
Venture Capital
Sebenius, James K. "Beyond the Deal: Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign'." Negotiation 13, no. 11 (November 2010).
- 05 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
- 19 May 2017
- News
Minimum wage increases can kill businesses — if they already stink
- May 2018
- Other Article
A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Joacim Tag, Michael Webb and Stefanie Wolter
We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these...
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Colonnelli, Emanuele, Joacim Tag, Michael Webb, and Stefanie Wolter. "A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 323–327.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
By: Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca
We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close to the margin of exit....
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Luca, Dara Lee, and Michael Luca. "Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-088, April 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Cost of saving factory jobs via lower wages
- 08 Jan 2021
- News
How Iceland Is Closing the Gender Wage Gap
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
Abstract: We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower...
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- 14 Apr 2016
- News
Why Women Can't Negotiate Their Way Out of the Wage Gap
- 2022
- Article
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor
market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial...
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Wilmers, Nathan, and Letian Zhang. "Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium." American Sociological Review 87, no. 3 (2022): 415–442.
Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak... View Details