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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets : the Mexican experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano - 2006
large informal or unregulated sector, Mexico. It studies quarterly gross flows of workers over a 15-year period that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522177
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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?
Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076527
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An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes
Guvenen, Fatih - EconWPA - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126455
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Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in Competitive Experimental Markets
Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Riedl, Arno - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076517
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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness
Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076544
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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - EconWPA - 2003
Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers’ underbidding by lowering wages? We hypothesize that under conditions of incomplete labor contracts wage levels may positively affect workers’ propensity to cooperate. This, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076549
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Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycle Comovement
Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076717
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International Rent Sharing and Domestic Labor Markets: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2003
Foreign-owned firms account for a significant part of output in many industrialized countries. However, compared to international trade linkages, relatively little is known about the role of foreign direct investment linkages and multinational firm behavior in the transmission of disturbances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126285
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Oligopsony and the Distribution of Wages
Bhaskar, V.; To, Ted - EconWPA - 1999
A number of theories (search and efficiency wages) have been developed, in part, to explain why identically able workers are often paid different wages. However, when there is a minimum wage, they do not explain the resulting ``spike" in the wage distribution. Our model's predictions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556812
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Activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico
Verner, Dorte - 2005
"The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522638