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Effects of Economic Globalisation on Employment Trend and Wages in Developing Countries: Lessons from Nigeria Experiences
Elijah, Obayelu Abiodun - 2007
globalization on employment and wages in Nigeria. The effects of globalization have been difficult to isolate and evaluate … theoretically and empirically due to it multi-faceted nature, but this study attempt to analyse the effects on employment and … employees’ wages by looking at what happened before, during and after globalization in Nigeria. Information and data were …
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Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation
Michie, Jonathan; Sheehan, Maura - 2003
Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human resource management techniques, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441570
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An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Imperfect Information on Wages in Canada
Sharif, Najma R.; Dar, Atul A. - 2007
Most studies of wage differentials explain such differentials in terms of factors like gender, race, and human capital. But systematic gaps in earnings can arise even among homogenous individuals as a result of asymmetric employer and worker information gaps, thereby reflecting labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444773
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International trade and labour markets
Braun, Sebastian Till - 2010
through local subsidiaries. The essay demonstrates that the adverse employment effects of a unilateral wage floor increase … significantly when trade barriers are removed. Multinational firms mitigate the adverse employment effects of one-sided wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467258
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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach
Bouev, Maxim - 2002
This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - 2005
This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...
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Organizational commitment of Chinese employees in foreign invested firms
Gamble, Jos; Huang, Qihai - 2008
This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2008, pages 896-915. The International Journal for Human Resource Management is available online at informaworldTM at...
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Job search with nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labour force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the utility of being nonparticipant. Taking account of these transitions allows the identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483252
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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-25
1937
Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...
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State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Employment & wages. 1937-10-09
1937
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460619