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Comparing real wage rates
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2003
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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ICT use in the developing world: an analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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The effect of tip credits on earnings and employment in the US restaurant industry
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2012
According to federal law in 2012, employers can take a credit of up to $5.13 for tips received by workers in satisfying the minimum wage requirement of $7.25. This study uses interstate variation in laws regarding tip credits and minimum wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating...
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The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment: county-level estimates for the United States
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - 2008
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
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High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2004
Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of...
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