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Decoupling of labour productivity growth from median wage growth in Central and Eastern Europe

Schröder, Joris - 2020

The US-centred debate on the decoupling of productivity from workers' compensation has given rise to the question … local workers in the form of compensation and wage growth has been questioned. Existing analyses provide little explanation … as to why the gains in productivity are (not) fully passed on in the form of higher compensation, and why this is more …

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market

Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Andreas-Ulrich - 1998

Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...

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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary

Csengődi, Sándor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter M. - 2005

This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...

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Establishment age and wages: evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital), job characteristics, and characteristics of the employer (e.g., firm size). An emerging empirical literature suggests that one hitherto overlooked firm...

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Employed and unemployed search: The marginal willingness to pay for attributes in Lithuania, the US and the Netherlands

van Ommeren, Jos; Hazans, Mihails - 2003

This paper introduces a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay to avoid a temporary contract, which increases the risk of becoming unemployed, is derived for Lithuania. The empirical...

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The implications of wage structure rigidity on human capital accumulation, economic growth and unemployment: A Schumpeterian approach to endogenous growth theory

Nusser, Michael - 1999

The approach put forward in this article is based on Schumpeter`s idea of creative destruction, the competitive process by which entrepreneurs are always looking for new ideas that will render their rivals` ideas obsolete. I present a model in which the rate of economic growth is sensitive to...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West Germany wage inequality

Card, David; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2012

Wir untersuchen den Beitrag von betriebsspezifischen Lohnaufschlägen, die in jüngerer Zeit zur Erhöhung der Lohnungleichheit in Westdeutschland beigetragen haben. Es werden Modelle mit additiv fixen Effekten für Arbeitnehmer und Betriebe für vier verschiedene Zeitintervalle über den...

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