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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Card, David; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …
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Impact of rural employment guarantee schemes on seasonal labor markets: optimum compensation and workers’ welfare
Basu, Arnab - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed as a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper models the impact...
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Imperfect Labor Contracts and International Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1998
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of human capital are an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two sectors, one where output is produced by teams and another where individuals can work alone. When worker’...
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Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts
Currie, Janet; Farsi, Mehdi; MacLeod, Bentley - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2004
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France; 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report, Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
France’s economic short-term outlook is positive, and long-term prospects have improved. Fiscal adjustment remains high on the government’s agenda. Tax reforms have improved the economy’s growth potential. Reforms in financial, labor, and product markets are necessary to...
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Lifting Euro Area Growth; Priorities for Structural Reforms and Governance
Everaert, Luc; Allard, Céline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
To live up to its growth potential and secure its inclusive social model, the euro area must make better use of its available labor. In the aftermath of the crisis, boosting growth is essential to prevent unemployment from becoming a long-term problem and to facilitate the return to fiscal...
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Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 80-107
We study the joint determination of gender differences in labor earnings and time devoted to home production in an economy where informational frictions give rise to incentive problems in the labor market. Our model generates novel predictions on the relation between earnings, home hours and the...
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ИНСТИТУТЫ ВОСПРОИЗВОДСТВА ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО КАПИТАЛА НА УРОВНЕ РОССИЙСКИХ ФИРМ
ВИКТОРОВНА, ВЕРЕТЕННИКОВА … - In: Вестник Томского … (2013) 3, pp. 5-14
Исследуется влияние институтов социального партнерства (трудовых контрактов, внутрифирменной системы подготовки кадров и корпоративной культуры) на...
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employment contracts, influence activities and efficient organization design
Milgrom, Paul R. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 1987
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The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy
Shafir, Eldar (contributor) - Princeton University Press
In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and...
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