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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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New technologies, workplace organisation and the age structure of the workforce: Firm-level evidence
Aubert, Patrick; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - HAL - 2005
This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds...
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The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - HAL - 2009
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794285
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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"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634996
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738814
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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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Get paid more, work more? Lessons from French physicians' labour supply responses to hypothetic fee increases
Chanel, Olivier; Paraponaris, Alain; Protière, Christèle - HAL - 2010
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the General Practitioners' (GPs) labour supply, specifically focusing on the physicians' labour supply responses to higher compensations. This analysis is mainly aimed at challenging the reality of a ‘backward bending' form for the labour supply of GPs....
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Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China?
Duvivier, Chloe; Renard, Mary-Françoise; Li, Shi - HAL - 2012
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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