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The influence of the urban informal sector on economic inequality
Tokman, Victor E. - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002902482
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Urban China in the New Era : Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward
Cheng, Zhiming - 2014
Introduction -- The Impact of Outward-Oriented Economic Reform on Income Inequality in China: 1978 – 2007 -- The continuity and changes of the hukou system since the 1990s: a critical review -- Land Reform, urban development and Migrant Housing in Contemporary China -- The Urban Village of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014018158
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Urban structure and the labour market : worker mobility, commuting, and underemployment in cities
Simpson, Wayne - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479955
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Urban China in the new era : market reforms, current state, and the road forward
Cheng, Zhiming (contributor); Wang, Mark (contributor);  … - 2014 - Aufl. 2014
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The wage returns to on-the-job training : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Almeida, Rita; Faria, Marta Lince de - 2014
Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380876
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Money on the table? : firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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Low-wage workers and the enforceability of noncompete agreements
Lipsitz, Michael; Starr, Evan - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 68 (2022) 1, pp. 143-170
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Noncompete agreements in employment contracts : can regulation ensure that noncompete agreements benefit both workers and firms?
Lavetti, Kurt - 2021
Labor market institutions that may weaken workers' bargaining leverage have received increased scrutiny in recent years. One example is noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from freely moving across employers, potentially weakening earnings growth. New data sources and empirical evidence...
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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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