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This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data...
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We investigate the observable determinants of sorting between salary and performace pay jobs, the extent to which wage functions differ between the two, and the magnitude of the unobserved ability differential between salary and performance pay workers...
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as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …
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In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of nativeworkers. Existing studies have … developed countries has a significantly negative effect onthe wages of native workers at the workplace - also when controlling …
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I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country.Administrative data from the Federated States of Micronesia`s (FSM) Social Security officeare matched to the FSM Census data for the wage sector employed. I find that the error inannual self-reported earnings is...
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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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Feinstein’s. This index is much closer to Feinstein’s than to Clark’s. Theimplied growth in real wages is also close to …
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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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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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