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performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. <p> The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …
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performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. …
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more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have …/value added and decreases in mean firm wages (at pre-existing layers). The reverse holds for removing layers. This result also … holds for layer by layer mean size and wages for a majority of pre-existing layers. …
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The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: <p> •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data <p> •the...</p></p>
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factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … wages are treated as downward rigid. The analysis remains valid when firms experience constant returns to labour in the … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of …
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In what follows, we examine the consequences of the development for the reorganization of work, the breack-down of occupational barriers, the transformation of job opportunities, and the implications for inequality in the labor market.
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The classical Roy-model of selection on the labor market is extended in order to analyze intergenerational mobility. This is done by linking ability uncertainty to family background. I derive implications for the allocation of talent and for background dependent earnings patterns within...
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depressing effect on their relative wages through world goods prices. In contrast, in the Heckscher-Ohlin model with small open … economies, the skill-bias of local technological changes do not affect wages. Thus, pervasiveness deals with a major criticism … employed despite rising or stable relative wages. Second, increases in demand for skills were concentrated in the same …
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Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically … individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign … negative effect on wages. …
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employees and pay full-time wages with the risk of over- and under-capacity or hiring professionals temporarily in the free …
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