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Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
Blackburn, McKinley L.; Neumark, David - 1992
One competitive-market explanation of interindustry wage differentials that is not challenged by the persistence of these differentials is that they are due to differences across workers in unobserved ability or quality. In contrast, this paper explores the unobserved ability hypothesis by using...
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Are There Long-Term Effects on Wages When Graduating in A Bad Economy in Taiwan?
Liu, Hsiang-Yin; Chen, Jennjou - In: Asian Economic and Financial Review 4 (2014) 10, pp. 1347-1362
of graduating in a bad economy on wages in Taiwan. The estimation results do show significant evidences of negative long …-term effect on wages. Besides, the long-term effects vary across genders and education groups. …
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Union wage effects
Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10
successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …
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First job experiences of Colombian college graduates: probability of formal employment and wages
Barón, Juan - In: Lecturas de Economía (2012) 76, pp. 55-86
Colombia to analyze: i) the probability of finding a job in the formal sector, and ii) the wages of those who find such a job … wages, as well as wage differences by gender and by type of university. …
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Efectos del prestigo de los colegios de enseñanza media, de las Universidades y el aprendizaje del empleador sobre los salarios en Chile
Paola, Bordón - In: Estudios Públicos (2014) 133, pp. 69-96
wages. The empirical strategy is based on the Mincer-type wage regressions. The analysis was carried out using individual …-level data from Chile. I find a large and significant effect on wages at the beginning of workers’ careers from attending a … cent the weight they place on university ranking when setting wages in three years. My findings further indicate that …
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries
Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …
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IMPROVEMENT OF MANAGEMENT A PERSONNEL ON AN ENTERPRISE
ALEKSEEVA T.I. - In: ВІСНИК ЕКОНОМІКИ ТРАНСПОРТУ І … (2011) 3, pp. 253-255
In the article the features of management a personnel are considered on an enterprise and the necessity of realization of the self-weighted policy is reasonable in relation to forming of quality and quantitative composition of workers.
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ГЕНДЕРНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ РОССИЙСКОГО РЫНКА ТРУДА
МИХАЙЛОВИЧ, ПАНОВ АЛЕКСАНДР - In: Экономические и социальные … (2014) 3, pp. 235-247
Проблема гендерного неравенства на рынке труда в той или иной степени затрагивает все страны мира. Поскольку в России заработная плата составляет основу...
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm-Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 485-497
This paper uses firm-level panel data of on-the-job training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this …
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