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evidence that such productivity spillovers exist, both within households and within firms. The first chapter examines whether a … effect on wages, indicating the presence of human capital spillovers. Co-worker tenure has a bigger impact on new entrants to …Economists have traditionally assumed that people's productivity in the labor market is determined solely by the …
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This paper investigates changes in the use of generic skills in Britain's workplaces, and examines which generic skills … may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience …. We use instruments borrowed and adapted from commercial psychology to derive quantitative measures of generic skills used …
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown to have small, lagged but significant effects on U.S. agricultural efficiency when public agricultural R&D and extension are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management...
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development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the … significance of labour mobility as an effective channel of R&D spillovers based on panel cointegration method. Estimates of …
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for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear also to be associated with high labour skills and then with superior … skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits, wages and aggregate income and welfare …. Results show that high net wages due to a low skills endowment in the economy are typically associated with low profits …
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durch anreizkompatible Verteilung der Handelsgewinne, durch Auftreten von Spillovers der Lernexternalität zwischen den …
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Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …
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Boost in wages Potlatch forest workers to get 10 per cent gain Benefit to 2,300 toilers Increase comes at christmas …
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Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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