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seems to improve the performance of three teams, irrespectively if the elasticity of substitution between Super- and Normal …, but varying relative wages, or when they operate under decreasing returns and pay the marginal value product of their … and egalitarian wages. In the last case, the non-qualified teams did not manage to improve their performance and qualify …
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The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …
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This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the employment and wage effects of FDI in Indian manufacturing. The findings suggest that foreign firms do not have any adverse effects on the manufacturing employment in India as compared to their domestic counterparts while they significantly pay...
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This paper examines the wage returns to different academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across the various degree subjects in the case of Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of graduate unemployment, which vary considerably by...
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sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor …
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-disclosed establishment-level employment and payroll data set for Texas at the NAICS-6 level, we analyze the differences in average wages … average wages before and after the rapid expansion of wind power development that followed the ex ante renewal of the … Production Tax Credit (PTC) in 2006. Using QCEW data, our main finding using both least squares and the nonparametric estimation …
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The starting point of the paper is that trade unions engage in substitution once certain targets have been met. This implies that a priority-based or hierarchical model might be a better approximation to union behaviour. This model requires a two-part union utility function which changes when a...
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development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …
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The main starting point of this paper is the idea that trade unions do not only care about real wage level but also about a reference or aspiration wage level. After citing a number of empirical works, the paper argues that the attainment of the reference wage is a priority for the union. This...
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The employment, but also the efficient use of the available work resources is directly connected to the work market. It is an element that cannot be separated from the other elements of the work market, especially from unemployment, because if one deals with them separately, one cannot cover all...
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