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"The Impact of Working while Enrolled in College on Wages"
Nelson, Wade; Jr, Owen Wade Nelson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262871
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Does physical capacity explain the height premium?
Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Kiiskinen, Urpo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper examines the role of physical capacity in the determination of the height premium by using the “Health 2000 … strenuousness of work. We also find that muscle mass is not related to wages. Furthermore, we observe that the shortest men do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561151
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Bang for Your Buck: STI Risk and Pregnancy Risk as Sources of the Price Premium for Unprotected Sex
Manda, Constantine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Sex workers receive a price premium for unprotected sex. Research has inferred that the source of this premium is a 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110048
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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
have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health care provisions and pensions. This paper is completely self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112836
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Alcune considerazioni sul mercato del lavoro italiano alla luce della ricostruzione delle serie storiche territoriali per il mercato del lavoro, 1861-2011.
Destefanis, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276369
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THE CONCEPT OF COMPARISON INCOME: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Theories of social comparison have a long presence in the social sciences and have provided many useful insights. In economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework. The first systematic usages of this idea can be found in the works of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836498
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Foreign Direct Investment and Labour: The Case of Indian Manufacturing
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Abraham, Vinoj; Sahoo, Manoj Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514900
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Globalisation and Employment: A Prelude
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Globalisation has proceeded at an unimagined pace in the last few decades. While it has resulted in high growth of global income, questions are raised about the equity of such growth. Disparity seems to be aggravating, as globalisation seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616915
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Coefficient of Structural Concordance and an Example of its Application: Labour Productivity and Wages in Slovenia
Verbic, Miroslav; Kuzmin, Franc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
concordance. We apply this descriptive measure by exploring the relationship between wages and labour productivity in Slovenia for … the period 1998–2007. We are able to confirm the hypothesis of high concordance between wages and labour productivity …, which indicates a stimulative role of wages in production of market traded goods and services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674262