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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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accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime …This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU …
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Using the large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the paper studies earnings inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984-97, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased by about 70 percent, participation rates for both men...
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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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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 …. However, in the presence of complete labor contracts employers accept and actively enforce wages close to the competitive …
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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...
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conditions (wages and/or employment) are significantly affected by profitability conditions abroad. By contrast, the US labour … identified at the macro-level. The rent sharing hypothesis implies that an increase in foreign profitability should boost wages … and/or employment in the domestic economy. Our empirical study provides evidence that international rent sharing might be …
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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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