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inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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We study urban, private sector Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...
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. We further find that employees of target firms experience a reduction in work hours and stagnation in wages despite an …
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allowances lead firms to increase employment, but entry wages and workforce composition are insensitive to patent decisions. On …
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Firms often use non-linear incentive systems to motivate workers to achieve specified goals, such as paying bonuses to reach targets in sales, production, or cost reduction. Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance...
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This paper studies the relationships between on-the-job training, wages and job performance by using the personnel …
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through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression … average of industrial prices from other industries, and by indicators of country wages weighted by industry labour shares for …
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Since 1973 median compensation has diverged starkly from average labor productivity. Since 2000, average compensation has also begun to diverge from labor productivity. These divergences lead to the question: to what extent does productivity growth translate into compensation growth for typical...
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This paper uses data from a nationwide sample of firms on employee wages and characteristics to reexamine the … and tenure in the current job have significant, positive effects on wages and productivity. Previous experience effects … are found primarily on levels of wages and productivity while tenure affects occur for both current levels and changes. 2 …
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the wages they receive. In particular, we show that this hypothesis may explain the high urban wages and unemployment … control urbaxv'rural migration, but could control wages and urban employment, it would, in general, set wages and employment … into accounce, both In the determination of shadow wages to be used in cost benefit analysis and In the analysisis of the …
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