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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I … wages. IV estimates suggest that OLS results are a lower bound for the (partial) causal effect. Thus, if confounding demand …
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate. …
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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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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a … simple model that incorporates both STI risk and pregnancy risk. I empirically test this using a rich panel dataset of 19 … regressions and find that compensating differentials for STI risk and pregnancy risk are sources of the price premium for …
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pregnancy and life satisfaction for women of childbearing age. The results show strong differences by race. Pregnancy has the … characteristics. There is evidence that racial differences in the effects of pregnancy on emotional and social support from others can …
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In May 1985, the Japanese government passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (hereafter refer to as EEO Law) which took effect from April 1986. The enactment of the EEO Law has aroused much controversy and debate unprecedented in the history of labour legislation in Japan. It prohibits...
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Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...
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equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …
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Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period. The workforce structure is exhibiting upward mobility across wage classes, moving towards regular employment, and...
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