How Does Boosting Workers' Outside Options Affect Job Mobility and Wage Setting? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data

增加工人的外部选择如何影响工作流动性和工资设定？

• 批准号: 1851926
• 负责人: Simon Jaeger
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: How; Does; Boosting; Workers; Outside

This award funds research on labor markets. The goal is to identify whether and how a change in the options available to workers outside their current employment affects their wages and the chances that they will move to a different job. The research team will measure the effects of several policy changes that shifted workers outside options using population level administrative data. The changes include changes in the vesting of pension benefits and changes in unemployment compensation. Real wage growth for the median worker in the United States has stalled in recent decades despite positive growth in productivity. The research will help us understand how labor markets determine wages, considering a variety of forces including bargaining power, unemployment insurance, and competition between employers. Through a better understanding of these forces, the project will provide insight into whether specific policies will lead to higher wage growth for American workers. The research will advance our knowledge of wage determination using quasi-experimental approaches that illuminate the role of outside options. While previous work has analyzed shifts in inside values of matches, this project focuses on outside options. It will help us understand what constitutes worker outside options and how wages and worker mobility respond to shifts in different types of outside options. The project will provide an identified estimate of how clean, measurable shifts in the cost of switching employers affects job-to-job mobility and wages and thereby provides a novel test of how employer monopsony power and mobility frictions shape the wage structure.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为劳动力市场研究提供资金。其目的是确定工人在当前工作之外的选择是否以及如何影响他们的工资和他们转到另一份工作的机会。研究小组将使用人口水平的行政数据来衡量几项政策变化的影响，这些政策变化将工人转移到其他选择之外。这些变化包括养老金福利归属的变化和失业补偿的变化。近几十年来，尽管生产率出现了正增长，但美国中位数工人的实际工资增长却停滞不前。这项研究将帮助我们理解劳动力市场是如何决定工资的，考虑到各种因素，包括议价能力、失业保险和雇主之间的竞争。通过更好地理解这些力量，该项目将深入了解具体政策是否会导致美国工人工资的更高增长。这项研究将利用准实验的方法来阐明外部选择的作用，从而提高我们对工资决定的认识。虽然之前的工作分析了匹配内部值的变化，但该项目侧重于外部选项。它将帮助我们理解什么构成了工人的外部选择，以及工资和工人流动性如何响应不同类型的外部选择的变化。该项目将提供一个明确的估计，即雇主转换成本的清洁、可衡量的变化如何影响工作到工作的流动性和工资，从而为雇主垄断权力和流动性摩擦如何塑造工资结构提供一个新的测试。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Wages and the Value of Nonemployment*

工资和失业的价值*

• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjaa016
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
• 作者: Jäger, Simon;Schoefer, Benjamin;Young, Samuel;Zweimüller, Josef
• 通讯作者: Zweimüller, Josef

Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations

边缘工作和工作剩余：对离职效率的检验

• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdac045
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Review of Economic Studies
• 作者: Jäger, Simon;Schoefer, Benjamin;Zweimüller, Josef
• 通讯作者: Zweimüller, Josef