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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control …
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Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …
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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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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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-based explanations of wage changes consistent with increasing variance in wages as well as increases in mean wages as suggested by skill …
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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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others. This manipulation holds constant wages and piece rates, as well as human and physical capital. On cash-rich days …
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first estimates of worker-firm match quality using output data as opposed to inferring productivity from wages or employment … durations. Because teacher wages are essentially unrelated to productivity, this is compelling evidence that workers may seek …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate …
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Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is...
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