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Real Wages over the Business Cycle:OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains
Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sectorover the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data anddynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-countryheterogeneity even after controlling for...
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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T.; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Zelenska, Tetyana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) isanalyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-levelbiweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measurethe MW compliance cost for each...
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URBAN INSIDERS VERSUS RURAL OUTSIDERS:COMPLEMENTARITY OR COMPETITION IN CHINA’S URBANLABOUR MARKET?
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour marketcompetition from rural-urban migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870198
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE LABOUR MARKET INCHINA
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda Y. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2002
Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870251
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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)
United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003
Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying,and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled andunskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts newmembers to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilledlabor and supports firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360646
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Firm Specific Wage Spread in Germany - Decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to sort out firm-related differences from effects that result from different economic structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861315
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Good Internal Communication Increases Productivity
Opitz, Isabel; Hinner, Michael B. - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003
problems, the productivity of a company can be increased. The relation between internal communication and productivity has been … of communication on productivity. Since different communication dimensions have a different impact on an employee …’s perceived productivity, effective and efficient internal communication has to be managed, therefore, in accordance with the …
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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001
Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
in relation to theeconomy at large and within the education budget. The second part ofthe paper looks at the productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695290
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Case Study 2: Torino’s Associazione Apolié drop-in centre
Winkler, Astrid - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
•Since 2000 Italy’s GDP growth has been below the Euro-area average, and total factor productivity growth has been very …
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