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authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …
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"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends … in wage inequality, the evidence supports two well-known hypotheses: trade liberalization, other things being equal, (1 …
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"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to...
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consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …
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Latvian labor market, compared with prime?age men, is less unfavorable than in many other countries. Yet the gender wage gap …
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"Although there is extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. Beegle, Dehejia, and Gatti evaluate the causal...
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"Teachers' salaries have often been highlighted as an important issue in discussions on school improvement. The level and structure of teacher remuneration affect morale and the ability to focus on and devote adequate time to teaching. Lopez-Acevedo examines who teachers are, whether teachers...
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