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oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …
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This Paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labour market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and...
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wages and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labour market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel’s Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men … segment. A 10% increase in the share of immigrants lowers natives’ wages in the short run by 1 to 3%, but this effect …
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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 … my results, I find a bargaining power below 0.20. I also show that workers’ wages deteriorate through competitive …
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to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …
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This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes.
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We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work-force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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statistically significant association between the extent of democratic rights and wages received by workers. The association exists … improvements result from the enhancement of democratic institutions: average wages in a country like Mexico would be expected to …
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strategic interactions among firms are explicitly recognized. Our main aim is to investigate how equilibrium wages and …
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labour share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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