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Wage differences in Spain: an industry regional analysis
Aláez Aller, Ricardo; Longás García, Juan Carlos; … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2003) 3, pp. 5-24
The present paper seeks to analyse regional and industry wage differentials in Spain. Differences in observed industry and regional earnings are to be expected, whenever the considered individuals differ with respect to their human capital characteristics. However, this paper shows, using data...
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Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Stehrer, Robert; Vries, Gaaitzen - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 149 (2013) 4, pp. 631-662
In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing—or offshoring—and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995–2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World Input–Output Database to estimate a system of variable...
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Occupational Human Capital and Wages: The Role of Skills Transferability Across Occupations
Nawakitphaitoon, Kritkorn - In: Journal of Labor Research 35 (2014) 1, pp. 63-87
workers’ wages. Unlike previous studies that apply occupational tenure as a proxy for occupational human capital, this paper … occupational skills from the previous jobs can also affect the workers’ wages at the current job and that occupational investment … is one of the important sources of wages supporting the Shaw’s original work on wage determination. Specifically, 5 years …
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The wage effects of subsidized career breaks
Skans, Oskar; Liljeberg, Linus - In: Empirical Economics 47 (2014) 2, pp. 593-617
groups with low expected returns to experience, and in an environment with very compressed wages. The career breaks also …
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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage
Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Health, Labour Supply and Wages: A Critical Review of Literature
Ghatak, Amrita - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2010
This article addresses the research question, how does general physical health status influence the labour supply behaviour and labour productivity? It deals with the issues that are dealt by the economists to explain the mechanism through which health as a form of human capital is related to...
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Structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the...
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International Competitiveness: is the reduction of wages a solution? An evaluation of the Portuguese case
Vaz, Elsa; Fontoura, Maria Paula - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013
extending the reduction of wages already deployed by the government in the public sector to the private sector leads to a …
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Salario di produttivita' o di redditivita' nell'Agenda Monti, non ancora di partecipazione
Pini, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2013
, suggest to use fiscal advantages for flexible wages to favour the diffusion of decentralized bargaining, without introducing … any monitoring procedures to decrease the risk of “cosmetic†contracts. Finally, the link between wages and firm …
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A Re-examination of the Impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on Employment
Dickens, Richard; Riley, Rebecca; Wilkinson, David - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2012
A general consensus has emerged that while the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) raised the pay of low wage workers it did little to harm their employment prospects. This is in contrast to the US and other countries where a debate over minimum wage effects still rages on. We re-examine the evidence...
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