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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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Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor …
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and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign … as their size, industry, and location. The answer is that foreign firms do pay a higher price, and even a higher price … in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally …
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We use Japanese prefectural wage and land price data to estimate the magnitude of agglomeration effects in manufacturing and finance. We also examine the range of agglomeration effects by estimating the extent to which they diminish with distance, using a specification that encompasses the polar...
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This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
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in industry are employed in establishments producing goods or services, and do not perform research and development (R …
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paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …
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of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits … bonus of extra output as a result of a uniquely vertical European aggregate supply curve. The analysis of real wages also …
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a wage equation. I reach the following two main conclusions: Nominal wages adjust faster to prices than prices do to … nominal wages. This may be taken as evidence that price inertia is more important empirically than nominal wage inertia. The …
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