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on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with …
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dydis, apskritis. The purpose of the study: to evaluate the extent of tax evasion practices in Lithuania ("wages in …
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institutional determinants, de-unionisation has had an adverse effect on income inequality, whereas higher minimum wages have …Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for …
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This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition … wages literature. It argues that the length of production run and degree of fixity of factors is crucial in such analyses …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in …
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"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...
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reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … unskilled workers, reducing their wages, and thus their opportunity cost of having children, creating a vicious cycle. A model … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily …
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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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More pay idea echoed at dam. - Labor heads and MWAK official think higher wage needed in next contract. - Under Carl R. Schedler of Washington, D. C., the department of labor today began its public hearing to determine the prevailing wage in this area to arrive at a new wage schedule for...
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