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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997
We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472762
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
constrained (the lean season) reduces aggregate labor supply, drives up wages and leads to a reallocation of labor from less to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453152
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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014
An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...
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