Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment: Review and Implications |
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Authors: | Pischke Jorn-Steffen |
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Institution: | * CEP, London School of Economics Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK e-mail: s.pischke{at}lse.ac.uk. |
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Abstract: | Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure,affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets withfrictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequalityin the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europein the 1980s. These different trends are the result of differentinvestment decisions by firms for the jobs typically held byless skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives toinvest in less skilled workers, because minimum wages or unioncontracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paidto these workers. I report some empirical evidence for investmentsin training and physical capital across the Atlantic, whichis roughly in line with this theoretical reasoning. (JEL E22,E24, J23, J24, J31) |
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