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De l'esclavage au salariat : économie historique du salariat bridé
Moulier Boutang, Yann - 1998 - 1. éd
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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands' from the year of slave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027691
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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies 'sugar islands' from the year of slave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457708
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Sugar Prices, Labor Income, and Poverty in Brazil
Krivonos, Ekaterina; Olarreaga, Marcelo - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2009)
This paper assesses the impact of a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries on household labor … sugar-growing and sugar-processing sectors. Workers in other sectors experience modest wage gains, except low- and medium …-labor-intensive good (sugar), skilled workers get the largest wage increase. However, the largest labor income gains are experienced by …
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Updating great expectations : the effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecasts
Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo - 2020
How jobseekers set their earnings expectations is central to job search models. To study this process, we track the evolution of own-earnings forecasts over 18 months for a representative panel of university-leavers in Mozambique and estimate the impact of a wage information intervention. We...
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Misinformed, mismatched, or misled? : explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique
Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo; Xirinda, Gimelgo - 2020
Inaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high-income countries, and there is little evidence regarding the sources of expectational errors. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduates from the six largest universities in...
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Employment mismatches drive expectational earnings errors among Mozambican graduates
Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo; Xirinda, Gimelgo - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 38 (2024) 1, pp. 51-73
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Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? : evidence from Mozambican job-seekers
Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo - In: Journal of development economics 159 (2022), pp. 1-14
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Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment affect domestic real wages? An investigation using French micro-data
Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - 2015
This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - 2012
The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...
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