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skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …
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This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …
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positive effect on entry wages and wage-tenure profiles are adjusted according to entry age. -- Deferred compensation ; human … capital ; internal labor markets ; older workers ; wages …
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decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering … top-paying jobs, entry wages and wage growth, and skill premia over time. To allow for a detailed analysis, we distinguish …
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While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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This paper presents a novel measure of labor market conditions based on micro data from a large business survey in Sweden. The indicator, relative labor shortages (RLS), is the ratio of respondents' quantitative assessment of labor shortages and current employment. Contrary to other survey-based...
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This paper presents a novel measure of labor market conditions based on micro data from a large business survey in Sweden. The indicator, relative labor shortages (RLS), is the ratio of respondents' quantitative assessment of labor shortages and current employment. Contrary to other surveybased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285194