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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … deficit of displaced workers can be attributed roughly 40 percent to reduced hourly wages and 60 percent to reduce work hours … losses and nearly 25 percent of lower long-term hourly wages. For workers displaced from employers paying top …
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
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-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …
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privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …
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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …
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