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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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Part-time work, wages, and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 67 (2014) 3, pp. 926-954
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Impacts of unionization on quality and productivity : regression discontinuity evidence from nursing homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 68 (2015) 4, pp. 771-806
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
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Voice at work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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Wage determination in the shadow of the law : the case of works councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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Returns to apprenticeship based on the 2006 Canadian Census
Gunderson, Morley; Krashinsky, Harry - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 68 (2015) 5, pp. 1078-1101
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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war
Edo, Anthony - 2017
1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …
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Wages and recruitment : evidence from external wage changes
Falch, Torberg - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 70 (2017) 2, pp. 483-518
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