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The traditional research on method of pay and wages compares those paid piece rates with those paid by the hour, and … receive lower wages than those in the other two groups …
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This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in … exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting them to substandard conditions. We first address efforts of activist groups …-country wages. Available theories yield ambiguous predictions, leaving the effects to be examined empirically. We therefore, finally …
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Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments … wages in favor of foreign establishments remains even when these other determinants of wages are taken into account. Within … manufacturing, the extent of foreign ownership in an industry in a state had no impact on wages in 1987 when these other factors …
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Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments …. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They … tend to locate in lower-wage states, but to pay more than domestically-owned firms within industries within states. Wages …
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We use university parking permits to study how firms and employees split the value of employee benefit tax subsidies. Starting in 1998, the IRS allowed employees to pay for parking passes with pre-tax income. This subsidized the parking pass purchases of faculty and staff, but did not affect...
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This paper documents the increase in the use of lump-sum payments and profit sharing plans in union contracts in the 1980s, and evaluates the extent to which these innovations may have contributed to moderation in the growth of labor costs, and increased pay flexibility. We find evidence that...
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uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in …This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The …
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This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U ….K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to …
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has evolved to study inflation in Japan. Our key finding is that labor market dynamics shifted after 1998 so that … correlations between labor market tightness and wages weakened noticeably. This change was accompanied in a break in the … relationship between wages and prices, so wage inflation has become a much less important determinant of price inflation …
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, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …
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