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wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor … sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages …
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, especially in developing regions. Elasticity of employment is low and falling further. Whatever little employment expansion is … market negatively. Employment growth and elasticities are lower in regions that have had rapid globalisation. Institutional …
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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
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This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …
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We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …
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Development literature in the past decade has become more people centric with human development being projected as one of the 'ends' of development planning. The present paper tries to explore the trends, patterns and regional dimension of human development (HD) in India through construction of...
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of health infrastructure and current health status for a constituent state of India using principal component method and … examines the interlinkage between them as well as that between health status and economic development. Relative position of the … districts within the state is explored to identify the determinants of health status using simple econometric exercise. Results …
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the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …
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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of …
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