Showing 1 - 10 of 716
data is useful for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived … for many firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours …, employment, the share of females in employment and firm expectations of survival). A limitation of such analysis with any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088160
Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107207
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826760
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian full-time workers with permanent contracts, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039598
study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159937
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063908
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106962
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779733
poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … countries. Much of the literature focusses on the impact of monetary policy on inflation levels and inflation volatility, and … sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870283