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choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and … work performance, compared to the alternative of exogenous assignment. Classical economic theory suggests that giving … of choice. When a worker is allowed to choose his or her compensation scheme, the labor market participation rate is …
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The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...
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; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
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took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …
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We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature … is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a … decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor can be compatible with marginal productivity differentials stemming from …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
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Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …
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-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …
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