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In this paper, we study the inflation dynamics in an industrial inflation-targeting country (New Zealand). Our objective is to check if the inflation targeting policy has a transition period or not. Loosely speaking, we try to give some response to the famous debate: if the inflation targeting...
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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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In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …
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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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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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' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic …
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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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establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …
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estimate the impact of firmprovided training on both the employment-unemployment and job-to-job transitions using French panel … experience an employment-unemployment transition during the period and that the probability to switch firms is higher among … untrained workers. Additional results on the effect of training on wages indicate that training participation in 1998 increases …
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Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …
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