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An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...
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Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and … female net wages therefore stimulate female labor supply. The example of Sweden shows that pronatalist policies can be …
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wages. One direction in economic theory suggests that intrinsically motivated workers are willing to accept lower wages and … motivations are expected to increase worker productivity and, in turn, wages (the intrinsic motivation-productivity hypothesis … motivation-productivity hypothesis, more motivated workers earn significantly higher wages, which signals higher productivity …
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How valuable is formal education for entrepreneurs’ income relative to employees’? And if the income returns to formal education are different for entrepreneurs vis-à-vis employees, what might be a plausible explanation? To explore these questions, we analyze a large representative US...
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This article evaluates the effect of the Argentinean Support Program for Organizational Change on employment and wages … support increased employment and wages, with a higher impact on employment. In addition, we find that product innovation … support had a larger effect on wages than process innovation support. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …
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; and positive sorting—more skilled entrepreneurs matched with more skilled workers. The estimation of wage regressions …. Results suggest that workers’ wages reflect the value of the match with entrepreneur’s skills. Thus, entrepreneurial skills …
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In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing—or offshoring—and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995–2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World Input–Output Database to estimate a system of variable...
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workers’ wages. Unlike previous studies that apply occupational tenure as a proxy for occupational human capital, this paper … occupational skills from the previous jobs can also affect the workers’ wages at the current job and that occupational investment … is one of the important sources of wages supporting the Shaw’s original work on wage determination. Specifically, 5 years …
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groups with low expected returns to experience, and in an environment with very compressed wages. The career breaks also …
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