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Setting the minimum wage
Boeri, Tito - 2009
down low productivity jobs is addressed. There are two common ways of setting national minimum wages: they are either …
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A Comparison of Countries' Development Indexes and Their Tennis Performance
Vyas, Aaryaman - 2017
Be it Olympics or tennis or any other sport, we see that few countries always have greater representation on the medals tally. Tennis is a sport that demands a high level of hard work and investment not just in coaching, but also for its accessories. ATP and WTA are two professional bodies that...
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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy : A Labour Market Approach
Bouev, Maxim - 2004
This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence of the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to 'go underground' is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
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National Regulation in a Global Economy : New Governance Approaches to 21st Century Work Law
Lobel, Orly - 2008
This chapter for the Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics, discusses government regulation of the labor market in the 21st Century, with a particular emphasis on the need to maintain competitiveness in an era of globalization. The chapter first considers the 'race to the...
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A Seattle Game Changer?
Bourne, Ryan - 2018
The traditional theoretical view of minimum wage laws is that, because labor markets are competitive, the laws hurt employment while delivering little benefit to workers as a group. Empirical research has generally supported this view, finding that minimum wage increases are followed by...
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Globalised labour markets? : international rent sharing across 47 countries
Martins, Pedro S.; Yang, Yong - 2010
exercise based on 'matched' parents. Finally, we show that different measures of the heterogeneity between parents and …
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Focus on Wage Differentials in Selected Countries : Financial Management Analysis
Swamy, M. R. K. - 2008
While it is true that 'Organization Revolution' (marked by high-level technological sophistication and requiring high-academically qualified technical manpower with labour mix 50 engineers - 10 technicians - 5 craftsmen has led to widening wage differentials, data published by U.S. Census Bureau...
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
exercise based on 'matched' parents. Finally, we show that different measures of the heterogeneity between parents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136491
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The empirics of agglomeration economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - 2014
density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then … addressed. Most important concerns are about endogeneity at the local and individual levels, the choice of a productivity … of local determinants of productivity, employment, and firms' locations choices are surveyed for both developed and …
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …
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