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Wage Flexibility and Contract Structure in Germany
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1999)In this paper, we look at how labor market conditions at different points during the tenure of individuals with firms are correlated with current earnings. Using data on individuals from the German Socioeconomic Panel for the 1985-1994 period, we find ... -
Wage policy of firms : an empirical investigation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)This paper analyzes the dynamics of wages and workers' mobility within firms with a hierarchical structure of job levels. The theoretical model proposed by Gibbons and Waldman (1999), that combines the notions of human capital accumulation, job rank ... -
The Wage Rate and the Profit Rate in the Price of Production Equation: a New Solution to an Old Problem
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1997)The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, even if Marx's solution to the transformation problem can be modified, his basic concusions remain valid. -
Wages and Mobility: the Impact of Employer-Provided Training
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Welfare criteria from choice: the sequential solution
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2015-01)We study the problem of deriving a complete welfare ordering from a choice function. Under the sequential solution, the best alternative is the alternative chosen from the universal set; the second best is the one chosen when the best alternative is ... -
What Is a Commody? Two Axiomatic Anwers
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)We identify conditions under which preferences over sets of consumption opportunities can be reduced to preferences over bundles of \"commodities\". We distinguish ordinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up to monotone transformations, from ... -
What is ambiguity?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2014-03)The concept of Ambiguity designates those situations where the information available to the decision maker is insufficient to form a probabilistic view of the world. Thus, it has provided the motivation for departing from the Subjective Expected Utility ... -
Why Have Aggregate Skilled Hours Become So Cyclical Since the Mid-1980's?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)This paper documents and discusses a dramatic change in the cyclical behavior of aggregate hours worked by individuals with a college degree (skilled workers) since the mid-1980’s. Using the CPS outgoing rotation data set for the period 1979:1-2003:4, ... -
Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)Neither democracy nor globalization can explain the doubling of the peacetime public share in many Western countries between World Wars I and II. Here we examine two other explanations that are consistent with the timing of the observed changes, namely, ...
