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A distributional analysis of the public-private wage differential in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …. -- quantile regression ; public-private wage differential ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810687
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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The gender wage gap in four countries
Daly, Anne E.; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006
comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253459
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …
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The effects of the minimum wage on wages, employment and prices
Lemos, Sara (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002036058
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Job mobility in Europe, Japan and the US
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2010
mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US … uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926421
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The direct incidence of corporate income tax on wages
Arulampalam, Wiji; Devereux, Michael P.; Maffini, Giorgia - 2010
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156103
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The wage effects of social norms : evidence of deviations from peers' body-mass in Europe
Fahr, René (contributor) - 2006
"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375235