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and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …
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household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid … individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound … wages than fairly paid individuals with identical characteristics. …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
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Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...
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. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no …
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This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … system. Real wages and wage inflation emerge as especially persistent following an import price shock, while price inflation … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …
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In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects … employers bargain over employment and wages. Our hypothesis is that bargaining power is affected by institutional settings and … the period 1980-2005. The results indicate no significant impact of foreign ownership on employment or wages in Sweden. …
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young adults' wages in South Africa. The results show that, on average, any experience of physical or emotional abuse during … childhood is associated with a later 12% loss of young adults' wages. In addition, the correlation between physical abuse and … economic consequence (14%) is more significant than the relationship between emotional abuse and wages (8%) of young adults …
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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