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reform in Greece that allowed firms with less than 50 employees to participate in firm-level bargaining. Matching …
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Greece was inadequate while there was no "benefit of last resort". As a result, the relative position of households with …
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The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …
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Τhe study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated … contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than the national hourly minimum wages, and experiencing insults and …
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Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … working similar jobs. At the same time, wages are higher in firms under collective bargaining, even in similar firms in the …
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Egypt and Tunisia are perceived to have high levels of inequality, yet based on standard measures, inequality in these two countries is not unusually high. In this study we explore a new dimension of inequality in Egypt and Tunisia by using a more complete measure of income and decomposing...
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effects of union reps on firm-level wages, given the predominance of sectoral collective bargaining. …
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