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wages. This paper also contributes to the wider literature by providing the first estimates of the longitudinal gain (loss …) associated with joining (leaving) a union with respect to non-wage benefits. The findings show joining (leaving) a union … increases (decreases) the probability of being in receipt of legally guaranteed benefits such as bonuses and paid holidays. This …
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This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job …
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The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...
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In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer … recommendations in ILO Conventions. Some of our laws are very complex and this makes enforcement difficult. The Code on Wages Bill …
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …
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This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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Decentralised bargaining is an important wage setting mechanism that promotes wage flexibility which in turn determines how earnings and employment are affected by economic shocks. We investigate the impact of the 2011 industrial relations reform in Greece that allowed firms with less than 50...
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understand better the nature of RS in the country: it involves an element of risk sharing, as wages also decrease when profits … fall; RS is lower in regions with more latent competition from rural workers; higher minimum wages tend to reduce RS; and …, while employer labour market power reduces wages, it increases RS. Overall, despite its importance, RS in China is smaller …
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