Browsing Norges Handelshøyskole by Subject "wages"
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Claudia Goldin: Nobel Laureate 2023 and Her Impact on Understanding Women’s Position in the Labour Market
(DP SAM;19/2024, Working paper, 2024-12)On 9 October 2023, Claudia Goldin was announced as winner of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It can certainly be said that many had long awaited the recognition of her ... -
Internal wage dispersion and firm performance : white-collar evidence
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)This paper investigates the net relationship between internal wage dispersion and firm performance. An empirical investigation of the relationship between internal wage dispersion and firm performance is performed using ... -
Internal wage dispersion and firm performance : white-collar evidence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)Is internal wage dispersion good for firm productivity, or do internal wage differences break the conception of fairness and cause counterproductive behavior among workers? Contrary to previous empirical work that has ... -
Is labor mobility a channel for spillovers from multinationals? : evidence from Norwegian manufacturing
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-07)This paper documents labor mobility flows from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. 14,400 workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs during this period. By the year 2000, 28 percent of the ... -
Is mobility of labour a channel for spillovers from multinationals to local domestic firms?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)This paper documents the extent of labour mobility from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. On average, each year around one percent of workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs. By the ... -
Picking “lemons” or “cherries”? : domestic and foreign acquisitions in Norwegian manufacturing
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)We compare the performance in employment, wages and productivity for domestic plants acquired by new domestic and foreign owners. Prospective foreign owners pick large, high-wage, high-productivity plants, while new domestic ... -
Skill composition : exploring a wage-based skill measure
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This study explores a wage-based skill measure using information from a wage equation. Evidence from matched employer-employee data show that skill is attributable to variables other than educational length, for instance ... -
Testing the role of comparative advantage and learning in wage and promotion dynamics
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)Can job assignment based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ ability explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms? In order to answer this question the Gibbons and Waldman (1999b) model is estimated ... -
Testing the role of comparative advantage and learning in wage and promotion dynamics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-09)Can job assignment based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ ability explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms? In order to answer this question the Gibbons and Waldman (1999b) model is estimated in ... -
Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
(Discussion paper;4/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of women who are well-established in the labour market. We estimate a flexible fixed-effects wage regression model extended by post-childbirth ...