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The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...
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The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
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While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be …
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assuming that the traded goods sector is competitive while the non-traded goods sector is oligopolistic, I show that real wages …
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. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …
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positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …
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(and trade-off between) investment and wages in Slovenian firms. We find that investment behaviour is more consistent with … display a trade-off between investment and wages, and workers share in firms’ surplus and appropriate funds that are supposed …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … to 1.5% while it increased wages for high-skilled workers by up to 2.6%. This result is robust to a number of different …
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