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wage debate. Employment might not be affected if firms are able to pass through to prices the higher labour costs …
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paper estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and monthly … summarized in a “menu” of minimum wage variables. (2) An employment decomposition that separately estimates the effect of the … wages distribution with moderately small adverse effects on employment. …
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in addition to its social role. This paper estimates the effects of the minimum wage on employment using monthly … affected” and “Kaitz index” as a minimum wage variable; (3) The decomposition of the minimum wage employment effect into hours … moderately small adverse effects on employment. …
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In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …
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In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …
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not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
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This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the … employment contribute to the Australian economy. This paper examines how the rapid growth of labour hire employment can 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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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …
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