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The national minimum wage is an important cornerstone of Government strategy aimed at providing employees with decent minimum standards and fairness in the workplace. It applies to nearly all workers and sets hourly rates below which pay must not be allowed to fall. It helps business by ensuring...
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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...
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This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations onunemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricterenforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higherunemployment, less income...
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In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passeddual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving countrywithout losing their nationality of origin...
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We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. Theindividuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneousproductivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, thegovernment, which does not observe the...
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In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individualearnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital.Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employedindividuals only, and employment is...
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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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Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected byemployment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services providedby temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In thispaper, we analyze the effects of...
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as morepersistent in the EA than in the US in the face of import price, unemployment, orpermanent productivity shocks …
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This paper examines employer-to-employer mobility by describing theindividual wage trajectories along the working career. The model, whichis designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on thesearch, the matching, and the human capital theory. It is emphasizedthat hopping from...
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