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We investigate the geographical distribution of economic activity and wages in a general equilibrium model with many … asymmetric regions and costly trade. As shown by extensive simulations on random networks, local market size better explains a … region’s industry share, whereas accessibility better explains a region’s wage. The correlation between equilibrium wages and …
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altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …
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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
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Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …
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Boost in wages Potlatch forest workers to get 10 per cent gain Benefit to 2,300 toilers Increase comes at christmas …
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Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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More pay idea echoed at dam. - Labor heads and MWAK official think higher wage needed in next contract. - Under Carl R. Schedler of Washington, D. C., the department of labor today began its public hearing to determine the prevailing wage in this area to arrive at a new wage schedule for...
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wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d …'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the price of metals, which has reduced the earnings of the companies … not find it necessary to cut wages. …
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Employees get $22,623 profits Average bonus of $165 given pine sash workers. Profit sharing bonus checks of $22,623 were distributed among 137 employees of the White Pine Sash company at the annual dinner in the Elizabethan rooms, Davenport hotel, last night. The smallest check was $111 and the...
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