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Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe J. - HAL - 2013

We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using … by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender … textile sector and for well-educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages. …

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Household Production in a Collective Model: Some New Results

Rapoport, Benoit; Sofer, Catherine; Solaz, Anne - HAL - 2011

Household models estimated on labour supplies alone generally assume non-market time to be pure leisure. Previous work on collective household decision-making is extended here by taking domestic work into account in the Chiappori et al.'s (2002) model. Derivatives of the household "sharing rule"...

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Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - HAL - 2008

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a xed per diem with a partial (relative to the traditional fee-for-service system) fee for...

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Migrant wages, remittances and recipient labour supply in a moral hazard model

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...

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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013

A premature death unexpectedly brings a life and a career to their end, leading to substantial welfare losses. We study the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissez-faire with egalitarian social optima. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on...

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A Collective Model of Female Labor Supply : Do Distribution Factors Matter in the Egyptian Case ?

Hendy, Rana; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2010

This paper examines the intrahousehold ressource allocation in Egyptian married couples and its impact on females labor supply. Using data from the Egyptian Labor market and Panel Survey of 2006, we estimate a discrete-choice model for female labor supply within a collective framework. The...

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The new articulation of wages, rent and profit in cognitive capitalism

Vercellone, Carlo - HAL - 2008

parallel to a complete change in the relationship between wages, rent and profit. To demonstrate our hypothesis, this article … is divided in two sections: in the first section we are going to examine the definitions of the categories of wages, rent …

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How are wages set in Beijing

Sousa, José De; Poncet, Sandra - HAL - 2011

China's export performance over the past fifteen years has been phenomenal. Is this performance going to last? Wages …-intensive provinces may draw on this reservoir to increase competition in their labor market and keep wages low for many years to come. We …

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Inter-firm dependency and employment inequalities : Theoretical hypotheses and empirical tests

Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Thèvenot, Nadine; … - HAL - 2009

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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