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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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of the Arabic book translation industry in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria; (2) to understand …
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performance of the Arabic book translation industry in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria; (2) to understand …
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, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond) model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in the years 2002 …
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, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond) model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in the years 2002 …
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rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the fact that private services will become priced out of the market. We … effect upon industry wages. Much more important is the pricing power of an industry, which results from the complex …
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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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the workers, like differences in skill or qualification. Observed industry and firm effects on wages suggests, however … turnover costs. This induces firms to pay efficiency wages reflecting turnover costs. The turnover case offers some rather …
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wage only through changes in employment shares of industries used as weights on constant industry wages. On the contrary … industrial composition sizably impacts all industry wages through general equilibrium (G.E.) feed-backs from the average wage … – as a reservation wage in all industries in a search and bargaining framework – onto all industry wages. In particular …
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wage structure that shows similar correlations between training and wages as would emerge in a human capital framework, but …
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