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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning About Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population.
Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971349
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Earnings Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences.
Borland, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032823
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School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes
Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999
Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971333
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The Decline in Unskilled Employment in UK Manufacturing.
Haskel, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
This paper analyses the decline in unskilled employment in UK manufacturing.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971427
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Wages and International Trade
Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
my results, I find a bargaining power below 0.20. I also show that workers’ wages deteriorate through competitive …In this Paper, I present direct micro-econometric evidence of the relation between individual wages of French workers …’ wages not only comes from movements in the quasi-rent induced by competitive pressures but also from alterations of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123663
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Wage Bargaining in Industries with Market Power
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
In this paper we develop a fully game-theoretic version of the right-to-manage model of firm-level bargaining where … strategic interactions among firms are explicitly recognized. Our main aim is to investigate how equilibrium wages and … bargaining power of unions and managers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656145
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Cross-border mergers and domestic-firm wages: Integrating ‘spillover effects’ and ‘bargaining effects’
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Gugler, Klaus Peter; Sørgard, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity’s impact on domestic wages: one focusing on spillover …-effects; the other focusing on bargaining-effects. Motivated by scarce theoretical scholarship spanning these literatures, we nest …-border merger activity, we predict that ‘bargaining’ (‘spillover’) effects are relatively more dominant under high (low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083984
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Getting a Fair Share of the Plunder? Technology, Skill and Wages in British Establishments
Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper uses establishment level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) to examine the effects of new technology on pay. The wage differential associated with new technology is about 5-7% and is (i) robust to corrections for skill, workplace disamenities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067373
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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures
Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067622
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A wage Curve for Australia?
Kennedy, S.; Borland, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
Evidence from a range of countries suggests the existence of a "wage curve" -an inverse relation between earnings of individual workers and the rate of unemployment in the region in which they live. If such a relation does exist it has important implications for labour market theory and policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032879