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findings suggest that the reform caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication of their study suggests that their … development of wages is investigated based on a finer time grid. Further methodological considerations put into question whether …
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We revisit the signalling hypothesis, whereby potential employers use the duration of unemployment as a signal as to the productivity of applicants. We suggest that the quality of such a signal is very low when the unemployed receive unemployment benefits: individuals have good reasons to remain...
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employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …
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Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the role of training in determination of wages. By utilizing … determination of wages, which shows the poor quality of training in the overall economy. Results were obtained by Ordinary Least …
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This paper examines whether raising the salaries of government tax auditors reduces their incentive to accept bribes. It evaluates an optimal tax structure and economic welfare under conditions of perfect and imperfect information in relation to conditions for bribery. The major policy...
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Recent attempts of wage rise , problems of security at work place as well as many findings about child labor in Bangladesh were primary cause of writing this paper. But problems have deep roots: from world separation of capital and labor, profit increasing scenarios with labor inputs, human...
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-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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and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was taken into account by using instrumental variable quantile … regression techniques. They find considerable heterogeneity across the distribution of labor productivity and wages, with the …
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their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …
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This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main … wages allows us to ascertain that payments by results might be not only rent-sharing devices, but schemes that substantially …
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