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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs
Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010
This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...
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Globalization and the Wage-Working Conditions Relationship: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories
Warren, Cael - 2009
The wage premiums for firm-level foreign exposure (exporting and foreign ownership) have been well documented in the literature, and their potential sources have been studied in depth. Compensating differentials and efficiency wages are two distinct explanations (with radically different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429054
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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009
We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465996
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Determinants of gender-specific wages in Germany
Heinze, Anja - 2009
can indicate: attractive working conditions for women, lower qualification requirements or less discrimination against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467158
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477147
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The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
Lafontaine, Francine; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007
misallocation of labor ranging from 2 to 10 percent of total labor costs, for an increase in the index of labor regulation from the …
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Growing like Spain : 1995-2007
García-Santana, Manuel; Moral Benito, Enrique; Pijoan … - 2016
factors across firms was at the root of the low TFP growth in Spain, while misallocation across sectors played only a minor … role. We show that within-industry misallocation of production factors increased substantially over the period in all … technological frontier. Cross-industry variation reveals that the increase in misallocation was more severe in sectors where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530509
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The microeconomic origins of the Spanish boom
Moral Benito, Enrique - 2018
El patrón de crecimiento de la economía española durante el período 1995-2007 se caracterizó por el notable aumento del empleo y de la inversión, así como por la ausencia de ganancias en productividad. Estos desarrollos macroeconómicos se combinaron con un aumento del crédito bancario,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012532114
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The evolution of Spanish total factor productivity since the global financial crisis
Fu, Chenxu; Moral Benito, Enrique - 2018
La productividad total de los factores (PTF) se considera el determinante principal del crecimiento económico sostenible a largo plazo. La ausencia de crecimiento en la PTF caracterizó a la economía española desde la fundación de la eurozona hasta el estallido de la crisis financiera...
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House prices and misallocation: the impact of the collateral channel on productivity
Basco, Sergi; López-Rodríguez, David; Moral-Benito, …
empirically investigates the impact of local house price booms on capital misallocation within manufacturing industries. Using the …
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