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Entlohnung und Regulierungunabhängiger Versicherungsvermittler
Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2008
Unabhängige Vermittler erbringen im Rahmen Ihrer Tätigkeiten wichtige Dienstleistungen fürVersicherungsunternehmen und Versicherungsnehmer. Zum einen soll für Versicherungsnehmerin vielen Bereichen passender Versicherungsschutz besorgt werden (Produktauswahl). Darüber hinauskönnen...
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the averagewage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack ofdetailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newlyavailable data for...
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How Are Families Who Left Welfare Doing over Time? A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Welfare Leavers
Loprest, Pamela - Urban Land Institute <Washington, DC> - 2001
[...]This study is also a “leaver study”—describing the economicwell-being of families who left welfare and using the NationalSurvey of America’s Families (NSAF), conducted by the UrbanInstitute. It adds to the body of leaver studies by presenting anational picture, providing context for...
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JOINING THE EU: CAPITAL FLOWS, MIGRATION AND WAGES
Batista, Cátia - 2007
unskilled labor, as well as capital equipment and structures.Estimation of the implied aggregate elasticities of substitution is … performed and used in simulating both typesof wages and the skill premium. This constitutes an empirical test of the proposed … areperformed to measure the impact of foreign investment and emigration on skilled and unskilled wages between1985 and 1999. We …
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Real Wages in the British Industrial Revolution
Allen, Robert C. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007
Feinstein’s. This index is much closer to Feinstein’s than to Clark’s. Theimplied growth in real wages is also close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870147
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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. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urbanmigration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labourdemand outstripped that of the...
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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...
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Unions and Equity
O’Shaughnessy, Terry - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2000
Trade unions have been successful in compressing the wage distributionbut not in influencing the share of national income going to labour. This paperclaims that a compressed wage distribution provides insurance in the same way thatthe tax and benefit system does and thus may be...
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THE RURAL URBAN WAGE GAP IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATIONOF RUSSIA, 1885-1913
Borodkin, Leonid; Leonard, Carol Scott - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2000
This study provides statistical evidence that Russian rural/urban wages diverged substantiallyduring the … increased as rural labor responded to newopportunities. The patterns were moderately clear for nominal wages. This study …
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