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Does international trade impact wage discrimination?
Kim, Jongsung; Tebaldi, Edinaldo - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2709-2724
This paper uses microdata from the 2006 Current Population Survey (CPS) combined with data from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to evaluate the degree to which international trade affects wage discrimination. The paper's findings...
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Firm Exporting and Employee Benefits: First Evidence from Vietnam Manufacturing SMEs
Vu, Huong; Lim, Steven; Holmes, Mark; Doan, Tinh - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 519-535
This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and employment quality. Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2007 and 2009, we find some evidence that export participation by firms in Vietnam has a positive...
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Global sourcing – a critical reconsideration of sector definitions
Schwarz, Christian - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 708-713
I introduce an alternative parameter-based definition of component- and headquarter-intensive sectors into the seminal model of global sourcing by Antràs and Helpman (2004, JPE). This approach overcomes problems of the original sector definition like counter intuitive classifications or...
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Incidence of an outsourcing tax on intermediate inputs
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, … - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1271-1277
outsourcing tax on an economy in which the production of a specific intermediate input has been fragmented and outsourced. If the … outsourced sector provides a non-traded input, the outsourcing tax can have adverse impact on labor even if it is the most … labor. In the case where the intermediate input is traded, the outsourcing tax closes down either the intermediate input …
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Implicit contracts and industrial relations - Evidence from German employer-employee data
Gartner, Hermann - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 298-304
I test the evidence for implicit contracts across different regimes of industrial relations in Germany. The result is that there is strong evidence for implicit contracts. Comparing regimes of industrial relations, I find stronger support for implicit contracts in firms with individual...
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Do differing pay schemes help close the gender gap in overconfidence
Lahav, Eyal; Nir, Arad; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 30-36
We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...
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Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism
Pfeifer, Christian - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 612-626
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time...
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Marshall`s Rules with Aggregate Inputs
Behar, Alberto - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 812-819
We establish the formal link between the separability of inputs in a production function and the aggregate elasticity of demand for those inputs. This validates the implicit assumption used when calculating an aggregate elasticity with aggregated input prices and provides a practical approach to...
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An incentive to increase laborers' productivity with adopting performance-based wages and paid vacations
Nakamura, Yui - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 1018-1024
This paper shows that introducing a paid-vacation system tied to performance is effective in increasing the motivation of laborers to make effort and exercise high productivity. This effect is similar to the effects of implementing a performance-based wage system, on which many earlier papers...
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An experimental analysis of the existing differences of productivity across genders
Ennasri, Ahmed - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3304-3310
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the connection between productivity and gender by using experimental methods in order to produce the relevant data that is missing. This experiment is based on a principal agent game in which principals offer payments and agents choose a...
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