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Persistent inter‐industry wage differences : rent sharing and opportunity costs
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Lengermann, Paul … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
We reconsider the potential for explaining inter-industry wage differences by decomposing those differences into parts due to individual and employer heterogeneity, respectively. Using longitudinally linked employer-employee data, we estimate the model for the United States and France. The part...
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Labour market and labour market policies during great recession the case of Estonia
Eamets, Raul - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
a crucial role in recent economic recession. The measures taken included a reduction of nominal wages, working hours and …
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Wage setting in Slovenia : interpretation of the Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) survey findings in an institutional and macroeconomic context
Banerjee, Biswajit; Vodopivec, Matija; Sila, Urban - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
in variable pay components and employment but not in base wages. Minimum wage policy contributed to downward wage …
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Intellectual capital efficiency : evidence from Bangladesh
Rahman, Sheehan; Ahmend, Jashim Uddin - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 2, pp. 109-146
The study investigates associations, first, between a firm's intellectual capital and market value, and second, between a firm's intellectual capital and financial performance in the context of Bangladeshi companies selected from three different industries - banking, textiles, and...
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Determinantes de la temporalidad en el mercado laboral ecuatoriano
Chávez, Yannira; Medina, Paúl - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 13 (2012), pp. 24-53
The differences that exist inside the labor Ecuadorian market, in the different branches of activity, demonstrate the training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual, jobs and residence characteristics are analyzed on...
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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...
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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience
Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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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
employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors examined. Our results also suggest that whilst … intensive margin in certain sectors. We also find that in three of the five sectors, increases in real hourly wages were …
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Mental health : the new frontier for labour economics
Layard, Richard - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-16
This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also affects earnings and educational success. But, most...
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Spurious rejections by Dickey-Fuller tests in the presence of an endogenously determined break under the null
Badillo Amador, Rosa; Belaire Franch, Jorge; Reverte … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 3-16
Leybourne et al. (1998) have proved the possibility of a `converse Perron phenomenon' when conventional Dickey-Fuller tests are applied to deter-mine the order of integration of a time series. That is, if the true generating process is I(1) but with a break, frequent spurious rejections of the...
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