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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …
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dispersion of wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I …
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unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers' wages …
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In contrast to the United States or the United Kingdom where union status is generally tied to the job, the typical unionized worker in Germany is a member of an industry union and there is no direct institutional link between union membership and the worker's wage. Using micro data from the...
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while lower-ranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …
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Before the transition governments had strong distributional objectives, which they pursued mainly by direct controls over state enterprise wage rates and hiring decisions, yielding a highly compressed wage distribution. During the reform they maintained similar controls over state enterprises,...
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This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...
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