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Lohnspreizung und Effizienz
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not necessarily fair. The widening of wage differentials that is currently observed is interpreted in this manner: Skill-biased technological progress increases demand for skilled work...
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Emerging Structure of Rajasthan Economy in India
Singh, Inderjeet; Lila, Anshu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the fifty-five percent mark. Rajasthan, a state of India characterized by easy access to largest consumer markets, touches … work is an attempt to analyze the emerging structure of Rajasthan economy and its implications for the future. …
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Right To Information Act and NREGA: Reflections on Rajasthan
Menon, Sudha Venu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
corruption. For substantiating the core argument, the paper examines the success story of NREGA in Rajasthan.Section one of the … MKSS in Rajasthan for making RTI and NREGA a reality. Compare to other states, NREGA experiment was successful in Rajasthan … paper also highlight the achievements of NREGA in Rajasthan like checking migration to urban areas, Natural Resource …
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
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Employment Preferences and Length of Job Queues in Pakistan: An Update
Asma, Hyder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It has long been recognised that public sector jobs are an attractive opportunity (because of job security, fringe benefi ts, and so on) in Pakistan’s labour market. Since the early 1990s, Pakistan has been going through an economic restructuring plan, particularly in terms of privatisation....
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Job Rents in a Stylized Labor Market
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Wage formation is often analyzed by assuming that wage differentials reflect productivity differentials intrinsic to the workers, like differences in skill or qualification. Observed industry and firm effects on wages suggests, however, that wage differentials may result from causes rather...
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The General Equilibrium Wage Impact of Trade-Induced Shifts in Industrial Compositions of Employment in Brazilian Cities, 1991-2000
Mardukhi, Jian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Conventionally, it is presumed that restructuring of industrial composition of employment only modestly affects the average wage. This is because in a partial equilibrium setting such a restructuring affects the calculation of the average wage only through changes in employment shares of...
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Training Costs and Wage Differentials in the Theory of Job Competition
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1981
A labor market is considered that is characterized by job competition over job ladders. Firms paying more for comparable jobs can attract workers with better background characteristics (with general human capital) and will lose fewer trained workers (with general and firm-specific human...
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An Empirical Test of the Reder Hypothesis
Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards in response to changes in market...
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An Empirical Test of Reder Competition and Specific Human Capital Against Standard Wage Competition
Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards has been emphasized in a classical...
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