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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility
Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59
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Technology Innovations, Organisational Changes and Firms’ Wages in Italy
Ghinetti, Paolo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi … - 2007
technological changes are associated with higher absolute and relative wages for skilled workers. About organisational changes …, initially their relationship with firms’ wages is negative, but it becomes positive in subsequent periods, especially for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744236
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Job Tenure, Wages and Technology: A Reassessment Using Matched Worker-Firm Panel Data
Givord, Pauline; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …
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Inequality and Growth: the Dual Role of Human Capital in Development.
Eicher, T.; Garcia-Penalosa, C. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1999
This paper examines how the accumulation of human capital determines both a country's growth rate and income inequality . In contrast to previous work, we do not rely on credit market imperfectionf or political economy arguments. The insight of this model is that inequality is determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779609
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Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America
Behrman, Jere R.; Birdsall, Nancy; Székely, Miguel - 2003
This paper applies a new approach to the estimation of the impact of policy, both the levels and the changes, on wage differentials using a new high-quality data set on wage differentials by schooling level for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1977-1998. The results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509595
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Risk, Occupational Choice, and Inequality
Sandén, Klas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
This essay presents a new theory explaining increased wage inequality. A standard endogenous growth model is augmented with occupational choice of highskill workers. Depending on the occupational choice, high-skill workers earn either a certain or uncertain income. Wage inequality, measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423959
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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality.
Acemoglu, D. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1997
I consider an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labor for ce, the market for skill complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005748933
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Technological Change and Wage Differentials Results and Policy Implications From a Dynamic Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model.
Chang, H.-C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001
The effect of technological change on wage differentials between skilled and unskilled labour has been extensively investigated. However, the existing literature provides controversial results. This paper provides insights into the relationship between technological change and wage differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587809
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Analytical Job Characteristics and Compensation by Major Occupation.
Cousineau, J.M.; White, F. - Montreal - Relations industrielles - 1998
We estimate separate earnings equations for blue collar, white collar and manegerial/professional workers using analytical job characteristics by detailed occupation from the Canadian Classification and Directory of Occupations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641478
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Bank Deregulation and Racial Inequality in America
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona; Levkov, Alexey - In: Critical Finance Review 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-48
' relative wages by facilitating the entry of new firms and reducing the manifestation of racial prejudices in labor markets. …
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