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of trade on relative wages. …
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-induced productivity increases at the firm level, which get passed on to industry wages. Since tariff reductions were proportionately …
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The reform of fiscal policies and institutions lies at the heart of structural adjustment in developing countries. Although the immediate aim of such reform is to reduce fiscal imbalances to achieve macroeconomic stability, the long-term goal is to secure more durable improvements in fiscal...
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This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Mozambique during 1990–96. Under the Economic and Social Rehabilitation Program (ESRP), the economy has made impressive economic gains. Real GDP growth averaged 6.7 percent in 1987–95, despite the civil war, a decline in...
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-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade … widening wage gap. Also, changes in total factor productivity had a small effect on relative wages. The major factor behind the … presents estimates of the effect of trade on wages by calculating what wage rates would be under autarky. The results show that …
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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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