Search Results - subject:"Wage growth"

The end of destitution: Evidence from British working households 1904-1937

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2010

This paper estimates and investigates the reduction, almost to elimination, of absolute poverty among working households in Britain between 1904 and 1937. To do this, it exploits two newly-digitised data sets. The paper is a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of...

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Working Long Hours and Early Career Outcomes in the High-End Labor Market

Gicheva, Dora - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2010

This study establishes empirically a nonlinear relationship between hours worked per week and hourly wage growth: for … workers who put in 48 hours per week or more, working 5 extra hours per week increases annual wage growth by about 1 percent …

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Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?

Yang, Dennis; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

neighboring developed economies. Our analysis suggests that China's wage growth will stabilize to a moderate pace in the near …

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Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage Growth: An AKM approach

Sørensen, Kenneth L.; Vejlin, Rune M. - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2010

This paper estimates a wage growth equation containing human capital variables known from the traditional Mincerian … contribution is to extend the analysis from wage levels to wage growth. The specification enables us to estimate the individual … specific and firm specific fixed effects and their degree of explanation on wage growth. The analysis is conducted using Danish …

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Real Wages, Aggregate Demand, and the Macroeconomic Travails of the US Economy: Diagnosis and Prognosis

Setterfield, Mark - Department of Economics, Trinity College - 2010

this structural flaw, the effect of sluggish real wage growth on the incomes of working households now has the potential to …

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Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a neoclassical framework emphasizing rational … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban …

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Understanding the city size wage gap

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Pavan, Ronni - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

In 2000, wages of full time full year workers were more than 30 percent higher in metropolitan areas of over 1.5 million people than rural areas. The monotonic relationship between wages and city size is robust to controls for age, schooling and labor market experience. In this paper, we...

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Cyprus; 2010 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Cyprus

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

Economic conditions have stabilized, and the economy is projected to bottom out in 2010, giving way to a mild recovery in 2011 followed by stronger growth. The foremost policy challenge is to achieve the official fiscal consolidation targets so as to put debt ratios on a declining path and...

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Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2010

<p><p>We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle. Our data is drawn from...</p></p>

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Gary Becker on human capital

Weiss, Yoram - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 81 (2015) 1, pp. 27-31

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