John M. Abowd

High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decom...

Compensation Structure and Product Market Competition

The inability to measure the opportunity cost of labor has plagued analyses of firm-level compensation policies for many years. Using a newly construc...

High-wage Workers and High-wage Firms

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The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment

An Analysis of French Establishments

Our empirical analyses distinguish between flows of workers, directly measured, and job creation and destruction, again, directly measured. We use a r...

The NBER Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets Data Files

The NEER Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets Data Files were developed from public data sources to facilitate industry-based and area-based research...

Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage ...

Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate the effect of intertemporal ch...

The Costs of Hiring and Separations

In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample of French establishments in 1992...

An Econometric Model of the U. S. Market for Higher Education

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The Effects of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements

The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada

In this paper we study the connections between product .market conditions. negotiated wage settlements. and union employment in the presence of foreig...