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Robert M. Solow
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 292
Citations - 60985
Robert M. Solow is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unemployment & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 264 publications receiving 57825 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert M. Solow include Princeton University & New York University.
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Insiders and Outsiders in Wage Determination
TL;DR: In this paper, a firm starts with a group of insiders or seasoned workers, and there is also a large pool of outsiders who are initially less productive, but are transformed into insiders after one period of employment.
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Manufacturing Wage Dispersion: An End Game Interpretation
TL;DR: This paper found that between 1970 and 1984, the dispersion of wages among manufacturing industries in the United States increased by about a third, reflecting primarily an increase in relative wages in high-wage industries.
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The Rigidity of Wages and the Persistence of Unemployment
TL;DR: The authors presents a detailed critique of modern explanations of the behavior of unemployment, both within the Keynesian tradition and outside it, and concludes that these explanations are fully consistent with the behavior after the only comparable postwar recession, in 1957-58.
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The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained?
Alan B. Krueger,Robert M. Solow +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a project jointly sponsored by the Century Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, whose aim was to understand the reasons for the 1990s' rapid falling unemployment rate at low and constant inflation.