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The Impact of Gender on Mid-Career Labour Income: The Case of Bulgaria
Stoilova, Rumiana; Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Kotzeva, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The impact assessment of education and gender on mid-career labour income in a transitional economy could provide for better understanding of the influence of the labour market dynamics over individuals with different characteristics. Here, we attempt to find an answer to the question: How...
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Builders’ wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500: a comparative study of trends in and levels of real incomes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI = NWI/CPI: i.e., the real wage is the quotient of the nominal (money) wage index divided by the consumer price index, all employing a common base period (here: 1451-75 = 100)....
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Europa e Us [quarta parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Europe and Us. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health...
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The effects of unionization in an R&D growth model with (In)determinate equilibrium
Lai, Chung-Hui; Wang, Vey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper extends an R&D-based growth model of the Rivera-Batiz and Romer-type [Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (1991) 531] endogenous growth model by embodying a union with elastic labor to investigate the effects of unionization on employment and growth by highlighting the essence of...
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On a class of bi-polarization variance-based measurement: Evidence from Cameroonian data.
Chameni Nembua, Célestin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …
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A Shrinking Slice of the Pie: The Labour Income Share in Australia
Cowgill, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens to become unsustainable. This paper critically...
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Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Welfare Consequences of Asymmetric Growth
Murphy, Daniel P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
and that the exact nature of consumption patterns is important not only for growth and inequality, as has been emphasized …
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Wealth inequality in Europe and the delusive egalitarianism of Scandinavian countries
Skopek, Nora; Buchholz, Sandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role … the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …
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Wage-stickiness, monetary changes, and real incomes in late-medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1500: did money matter?
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Bedevilling the ongoing debate about changes in real-incomes in late-medieval western Europe, especially during the so-called ‘Golden Age of the Labourer’, is the very troubling issue of ‘wage-stickiness’. The standard and long-traditional explanation for this supposed ‘Golden Age’...
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