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affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an …
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Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … 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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This study analyses the effect of trade and migration on wages and labour market mobility. We estimate wage growth … in the reactions of white and blue-collar workers wages and mobility to trade and migration. In Austria exports have a …
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It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …
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human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …
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empirical determinants of the reservation wage - in particular the inßuence of previous wages - and consider what this implies … for the evolution of the natural rate of unemployment. We Þnd that previous wages have a signiÞcant but relatively small … effect on reservation wages (an elasticity between 0.15 and 0.47). We also Þnd considerable differences across genders with …
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' foreign capital stocks in 22 countries between 1994 and 2003. Estimating elasticities, we find that while domestic wages do …
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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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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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