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Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck
Edward Lazear
&
Kathryn Shaw
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Published Date
January 2018
Copyright
2018
CONFERENCE HELD
November 13-14, 2015
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Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1
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Table of Contents
Introduction to "Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck"
Author(s):
Edward P. Lazear
&
Kathryn L. Shaw
Chapter 1:
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
Author(s):
David Card
,
Ana Rute Cardoso
,
Jorg Heining
&
Patrick Kline
Chapter 2:
Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work
Author(s):
Erling Barth
,
James Davis
&
Richard B. Freeman
Chapter 3:
Firm Performance and the Volatility of Worker Earnings
Author(s):
Chinhui Juhn
,
Kristin McCue
,
Holly Monti
&
Brooks Pierce
Chapter 4:
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition among Applicants
Author(s):
Edward P. Lazear
,
Kathryn L. Shaw
&
Christopher T. Stanton
Chapter 5:
Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
Author(s):
John M. Abowd
,
Kevin L. McKinney
&
Nellie L. Zhao
Chapter 6:
Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?
Author(s):
John Haltiwanger
,
Henry Hyatt
&
Erika McEntarfer
Chapter 7:
Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals
Author(s):
David Deming
&
Lisa B. Kahn
Chapter 8:
Management Practices, Workforce Selection, and Productivity
Author(s):
Stefan Bender
,
Nicholas Bloom
,
David Card
,
John Van Reenen
&
Stefanie Wolter
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