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Principia Oeconomica 2: The Imperfections of the Economy or of Economics?
Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 15 (1988) 2, pp. 2-50
This is the second part of a long investigation under the title of, Principia Oeconomica; the first having appeared in this journal in 1986. The substance of the argument in this contribution is in the form of a dialogue with Henri Guitton, member of l'Institut de France and author of a book in...
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A Gift-Exchange With Probabilistic Payoffs
Luzuriaga, Miguel; Kunze, Oliver - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18
, but not in the probabilistic condition. Moreover, the treatment effect is strongest among firms which offer high wages. …
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Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Market Outcomes: A Unit Level Analysis of the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sofi, Irfan Ahmad; Mehrotra, Santosh; Reshi, Adil Hussain - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 101-122
Abstract Building on insights from the insider-outsider theory, we examine the effects of the Employment Protection … lead to an increase in wages and labour productivity especially in labour intensive industries, but discourage employment …. The study demonstrates how the insider-outsider model combined with the labour market segmentation theory, unlike labour …
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Implications of Changes in Men's and Women's Labor Force Participation for Real Compensation Growth and Inflation
Anderson, Katharine; Barrow, Lisa; Butcher, Kristin F. - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2005) 1
Abstract During the 1990s economic expansion, the United States enjoyed both low inflation and low unemployment. Juhn, Murphy, and Topel (2002) point out that low unemployment for men in the 1990s was accompanied by historically high non-employment suggesting that the 1990s economy was not as...
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences / Die Bedeutung von Lohn- und Qualifikationsunterschieden für die deutschen-amerikanischen Beschäftigungs...
Freeman, Richard B.; Schettkat, Ronald - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 49-66
wages coupled with less regulations governing the labour market and the product market in the US has induced firms to employ … in skill premium but changes in relatives wages are related to changes in relative employment. 5. The differing … dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates between Germany and the US. The jobs problem in …
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Lohnbedingter Mismatch auf deutschen Arbeitsmärkten? Lehren aus einem Vergleich mit Portugal / Wage-Induced Mismatch on German Labour Markets? Lessons from Comparison with Portugal...
Entorf, Horst - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 127-142
covariates of the matching trend. It turns out that the evolution of real wages is a significant factor of mismatch in Germany …. There seems to be growing mismatch because the (demanded) feasible wage of firms does not coincide with reservation wages of … minimum wages has significantly contributed to increased matching activities.  …
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On the Measurement of Private Rates of Return to Education / Ein Ansatz zur Messung privater Bildungsrenditen
Wolter, Stefan C.; Weber, Bernhard A. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 218 (1999) 5-6, pp. 605-618
Summary In many countries on the European continent, it is feared that public funding of tertiary education (university and non-university) leads to an undesirable redistribution of income “from the bottom up”. The calculation of private rates of return is one way of answering this and other...
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Die betriebliche Weiterbildung im organisatorischen Wandel / Continuous Training and Organizational Change
Berthold, Norbert; Stettes, Oliver - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 4, pp. 399-419
crisis. Contrary to the standard results of human capital theory, holistic firms are willing to invest in transferable human …
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 1, pp. 55-81
Summary 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 …. Second, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Garloff, Alfred; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 2, pp. 115-152
conclude that indeed a close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory …Summary Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related … transitions and the wage structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market …
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