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-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
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and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was taken into account by using instrumental variable quantile … regression techniques. They find considerable heterogeneity across the distribution of labor productivity and wages, with the …
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their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …
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This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main … wages allows us to ascertain that payments by results might be not only rent-sharing devices, but schemes that substantially …
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cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a positive and statistically significant effect on wages, although this …
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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This working paper estimated employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities and found new …
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Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...
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the development of temporary employment influences the rent, i.e. the gap between productivity and wages at the firm level …
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This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment.We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …
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