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A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much … import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …
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TAW is not associated with value added per employee. Employees in workplaces with TAW receive higher wages than … lower wages for employees in that occupation. Furthermore, conditioning on wages, the presence of TAW at the workplace is … compensated for with higher wages. …
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice – especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice...
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This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...
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Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
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of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …
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becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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