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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

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Employer cooperation, productivity, and wages : new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements

Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022

Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of joining a FNA on several indicators of firm performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we...

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Do big inequalities in executive pay hurt firm performance?

Chung, Richard; DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024

Research Question/Issue: Do large, within-firm executive pay differences hurt firm performance? Prior literature shows mixed results concerning the sign of the relationship between executive pay disparity and firm performance. This study evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development

Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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Gender wage inequality and economic growth : is there really a puzzle?

Schober, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have internationally comparable wage discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a...

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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry

Kim, Yunhee (contributor); Lee, Jeong-dong (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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The dispersion of employees' wage increases and firm performance

Grund, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In this contribution we examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wages in order to examine for the empirical dominance of positive monetary incentives effects compared to adverse effects due to fairness...

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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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