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A NLIP Model on Wage Dispersion and Team Performance
Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using a Non-Linear Integer Programming (NLIP) model, I examine if wage differences between Super talents and Normal players improve the performance of four teams which participate in a tournament, such as in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) group matches. With ad-hoc wage differences, the optimal...
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A Shrinking Slice of the Pie: The Labour Income Share in Australia
Cowgill, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political … conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens …. This paper shows that Australia has experienced the opposite of a ‘wages breakout’ since 2000. Over this period Australian …
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"The Impact of Working while Enrolled in College on Wages"
Nelson, Wade; Jr, Owen Wade Nelson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
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Towards a Hierarchical Approach to Trade Union Behaviour
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The main starting point of this paper is the idea that trade unions do not only care about real wage level but also about a reference or aspiration wage level. After citing a number of empirical works, the paper argues that the attainment of the reference wage is a priority for the union. This...
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Globalisation and Employment: A Prelude
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Globalisation has proceeded at an unimagined pace in the last few decades. While it has resulted in high growth of global income, questions are raised about the equity of such growth. Disparity seems to be aggravating, as globalisation seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is...
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THE CONCEPT OF COMPARISON INCOME: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Theories of social comparison have a long presence in the social sciences and have provided many useful insights. In economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework. The first systematic usages of this idea can be found in the works of...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Labour: The Case of Indian Manufacturing
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Abraham, Vinoj; Sahoo, Manoj Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the employment and wage effects of FDI in Indian manufacturing. The findings suggest that foreign firms do not have any adverse effects on the manufacturing employment in India as compared to their domestic counterparts while they significantly pay...
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Coefficient of Structural Concordance and an Example of its Application: Labour Productivity and Wages in Slovenia
Verbic, Miroslav; Kuzmin, Franc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
concordance. We apply this descriptive measure by exploring the relationship between wages and labour productivity in Slovenia for … the period 1998–2007. We are able to confirm the hypothesis of high concordance between wages and labour productivity …, which indicates a stimulative role of wages in production of market traded goods and services. …
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The Dilemma of Globalisation
Sinn, Hans-Werner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
one hand, the payment of social replacement incomes makes wages stick, preventing the gains from trade, causing mass …
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