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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination

Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998

Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower … unemployment but results in losses to females in terms of lower wages and higher unemployment. The benefit to males provides an …

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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...

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Reciprocal fairness and gift exchange practices in the labor

Mahuteau, Stephane - EconWPA - 2002

We aim at investigating to what extent reciprocal considerations, exhibited by employers and employees, should lead to stable gift exchange practices in the labor contract, giving rise to non- compensating wage differentials among industries. We use the concept of Sequential Reciprocity...

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Ingresos y Microempresarias

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

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The workers' value of the remaining employment contract duration

Ommeren, Jos Van; Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper introduces and applies a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay for the remaining duration of the employment contract is derived. We provide evidence that workers attach...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that …

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Connections, Specialization, & Lawsuits: The Influence of Human and Social Capital Formation in the Legal Profession

Larrosa, Juan M.C. - EconWPA - 2005

Legal profession represents a key labor sector whether in politics or business in any developed or underdeveloped country. What resources do lawyers use for matching the demand to their own services’ supply? Private sector lawyers make use of their level of human capital and their social...

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

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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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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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

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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