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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2005
How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the medium term evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these...
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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review
Ericson, Thomas - 2005
This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...
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Handbook of International Insurance : Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies
Cummins, J. David (ed.); Venard, Bertrand (ed.) - 2007
THE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE Gordon Stewart, President, Insurance Information Institute, New York, USA "The …, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA "Comprehensive surveys, written by international experts, provide in depth descriptions …, USA Bertrand Venard, Professor of Management, Audencia. Nantes School of Management, France. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014014345
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Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and World Monetary Policy
Floyd, John E. - 2010
A Theoretical Framework -- Specifications and Assumptions -- Underlying Equilibrium Growth Paths -- Variations in Employment -- Some Important Implications -- Exchange Rate Overshooting -- Exchange Rate Determination -- Issues Regarding Exchange Rate Determination -- Time Series Properties of...
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On the Persistence of Job Creation in Old and New Firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
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