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their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian fulltime workers with permanent contracts, on...
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …
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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the …, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage … and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain …
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We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … wages of non-production (high-skilled) relative to production (low-skilled) workers that occurred during the 1980s … sensitive, however, to our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the …
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relationship between wages, productivity and human capital in 5 European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the … United Kingdom, in comparison with the USA. Firstly we analyze the role of productivity in the explanation of real wages …, secondly we present a comparative study of the evolution of wages and productivity during the period 1985-2005, and thirdly we …
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
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at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …
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