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Wage-Price Setting in New EU Member States
Goretti, Manuela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
significant relationship between real wages and labor productivity, as well as evidence of wage pass-through to inflation. Terms … of trade shocks do not feed through to real wages. Country-specific wage developments, beyond differences in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605266
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Analysis of cross-country differences in the shape of the age-wage relationship with an attempt to tackle age-productivity differences within the EU
Walewski, Mateusz - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2007
As the process of population ageing in Europe carries on and the retirement age increases, the relationship between age … costs of ageing in the near future. In this paper, one tries to examine this hypothesis. The research strategy in this study … has been based on the assumption that, in general, wages are correlated with productivity on the individual level and, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633105
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The Long View: Labour Productivity, Labour Income and Living Standards in Canada
Fisher, Tony; Hostland, Doug - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and the non-labour share (composed of profits, interest and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481819
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Productivity Concepts, Trends And Prospects: An Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the relationship between the output of goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650208
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El mercado laboral en los países andinos : un compendio de datos sobre empleo y salarios
Egger, Philippe; Gárate, Werner - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1999
Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965742
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Recent developments in China's labour economy
Rawski, Thomas G - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
Reviews Chinese labour market developments during the 1980s and 1990s and proposes policy directions to help accelerate the creation of new jobs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966934
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Do unions impede or accelerate structural adjustment? industrial versus company unions in an industrialising labour market.
G, Standing - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1991
Based on a 1988 survey of 2,682 manufacturing firms. Examines the impact of trade unionism on the labour market, comparing the effect of company unions and industrial unions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967566
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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?
Jaumotte, Florence; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768889
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Employees: too expensive at 50? The age component in wage-setting
Saks, Y. - In: Economic Review (2014) I, pp. 61-74
Netherlands and Germany. Wages keeping pace with increasing seniority is not economically problematic if this reflects a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272828
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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618