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The effect of public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages
Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2020
The public work (PW) programmes have been the major active labour market policy tools since 2011 in Hungary. Majority of the public workers were inactive before the programme. Due to this the labour supply considerably increased in those district, which got significantly more subsidy from the...
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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Slander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
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Compensation of On-call and Fixed-term Employment: the Role of Uncertainty
de Graaf-Zijl, Marloes - 2005
In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates’ wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653404
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Inter-industry Wage Differences and Individual Heterogeneity: How Competitive is Wage Setting in the UK?
Carruth, Alan; Collier, Bill; Dickerson, Andy - 1999
There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...
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Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
Bohacek, Radim; Myck, Michal - 2017
We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We find strong effects of persecution and dispossession on...
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Intra-Regional Regional Wage Inequality In Portugal: A Quantile Based Decomposition Analisys
Pereira, João; Galego, Aurora - 2013
investigate inequality by focusing on wage differences within regions. We consider the case of Portugal which is referred as one … regions in Portugal. In fact, while inequality at national level slightly decreased between 1995 and 2005, some regions have … evolution among the regions. References Cardoso, A (1998), Earnings inequality in Portugal: high and rising?, Review of Income …
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: Impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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