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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we utilise waves of the Trinidad and Tobago labour force...

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The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to becaught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector andsmall low-wage firms will be in the informal sector...

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Firms and industries in evolutionary economics: Lessons from Marshall, Young, Steindl and Penrose

Bloch, Harry - 2007

Evolutionary economists have tended to assess firms and industries separately, neglecting the role of their interaction … in the process of economic growth and development. We trace the separation of firms and industries to Marshall, whose … industries. Penrose avoids the industry concept by focussing on heterogeneous firms, while Young and Steindl develop mundane …

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The speed and stability of price adjustment in Australian manufacturing

Bloch, Harry (contributor); Olive, Michael (contributor) - 2006

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Natural disasters, industrial clusters and manufacturing plant survival

Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J. R.; Okubo, Toshihiro; … - 2015

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Why is pollution from US manufacturing declining? : the roles of trade, regulation, productivity, and preferences

Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015

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Why is pollution from US manufacturing declining? : the roles of trade, regulation, productivity, and preferences

Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015

Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a quantitative model to explain how changes in trade, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer...

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Why is pollution from US manufacturing declining? : the roles of trade, regulation, productivity, and preferences

Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015

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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...

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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

industries, or received training by multinationals. …

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