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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace

Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

We explore the role of reciprocity in wage determination by combining experimental and survey data. The experiment is similar to Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe's (1995) and is conducted with Ghanaian manufacturing workers. The survey relates to the same sample workers and the firms within which they...

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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...

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Why do capital intensive companies pay higher wages?

Virén, Matti - EconWPA - 2005

An obvious answer to this question is the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis originally proposed by Zwi Griliches (1969). But the relatively poor performance of this hypothesis suggests that other explanations are needed. Here we consider the labour union behaviour in the wage bargaining...

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Who bear the burden of wage cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s

Böckerman, Petri; Laaksonen, Seppo; Vainiomäki, Jari - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the incidence of nominal and real wage cuts in the Finnish private sector during the 1990s. Centralized wage freezes together with a positive inflation rate produced real wage cuts for a large proportion of workers during the worst recession years of the early 1990s. In this...

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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005

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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000

This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556182

International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …

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