Showing 1 - 10 of 192
unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013474848
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184507
links on wages between workers from Western, Central–Eastern, and Southern Europe employed in manufacturing and non … pressure on wages in Europe. This effect mainly concerns workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by …, but the pressure of GVC imports on wages in Western Europe is not economically negligible, in particular when inputs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920899
The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064007
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725463
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014559046
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724405
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661389
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015332496
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939958