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Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...
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have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …
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have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …
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wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …
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This paper compares the role of technological change with that of trade in explaining the increased demand for skilled workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is consistent across industries, including those...
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This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...
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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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and the second is obtained using published data on wages and the wage distribution. Analyses of both datasets clearly show …
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The paper fundamentally challenges the institutional sclerosis explanation of the present German economic stagnation. Instead, we present a macroeconomic explanation focusing on the combined effects of too restrictive monetary policies, too restrictive and sometimes pro- cyclical fiscal policies...
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to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …
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