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This paper investigates the empirical relationship between labor productivity, real wages and real GDP in Singapore … relation between labor productivity and real GDP but that wages seem to be caused by other underlying factors. However, real … wages respond positively to positive shocks in the real GDP or labor productivity using cholesky or generalized …
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In 1990 a reform in Italy has modified the employment protection legislation for employees of small firms (with fewer than 16 employees) making much more costly for firms to dismiss workers, while leaving unchanged the employment protection in large firms. Using a sample of administrative data...
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The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI … ascertaining whether changes in nominal (money) wages or changes in the price level were paramount in determining changes in real … wages. But it does not permit us to make any judgements about the levels of real wages and thus does not permit us to make …
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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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alternative explanation of the wage penalty suffered by temporary workers even if standard models of efficiency wages would …
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wages and workers have imperfect information about average wages at other firms. If specific assumptions are made about … workers’ expectations of average wages and about aggregate demand, the model predicts how the aggregate demand and supply …
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performance. Thus high incomes reflect the high marginal productivity of labour of the affluent working population. While the … research gap by investigating the structure of high labour incomes in Germany. By revealing the determinants of high incomes by …
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This paper provides evidence for the size of firing costs for eight countries. In contrast to the existing literature, we use the optimality conditions obtained in a search and matching model to find a reduced form equation for firing costs. We find that our estimates are slightly larger...
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Economists have long been studying the shares of labour and capital in income. Surprisingly, no such empirical studies exist for Australia. This paper looks at a number of variables that can affect labour’s share in income: unemployment, capacity utilisation, growth rate of GDP and changes in...
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This study is to empirically investigate the effect of real wages on productivity in Malaysia using monthly data from … January 1983 to November 2009. The Johansen’s test suggests that wages and productivity are cointegrated. Moreover …, productivity and real wages have a quadratic relationship in the long run (i.e., inverse-U shape curve) instead of linear …
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