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CONTRACT VIOLATIONS, NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS, AND WAGE ARREARS IN RUSSIA

Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...

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Effects of Family, Friends, and Relative Prices on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by African American Youths

Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr; Jensen, Helen H.; Garasky, Steven B. - 2011

Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.

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What Are the Issues in Using Trade Agreements for Improving International Labor Standards?

Stern, Robert M.; Brown, Andrew G. - 2007

This paper addresses the issues of whether the linking of core labor standards withmultilateral or bilateral trade agreements is an effective way of promoting the improvement of labor standards. We review the determinants of core labor standards overtime and conclude that efforts to improve...

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Punish in Public

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here...

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The globalization of labor markets and its policy implications

Frank Oskamp - 2010

Since the 1990s, the effective global labor supply has increased strongly, in particular due to the integration of China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced economies. This development raises important challenges for...

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Monetary and labor policies under market frictions

Christian Merkl - 2007

in East Germany after unification, the existence of unemployment traps, their influence on labor market persistence and …

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Incentive models of the labour market

Alessio J. G. Brown - 2009

policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …

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Dr. Peter F. Drucker on business & management, tape 3

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1994

, China and inflation, unemployment and placement responsibility, Japan and lifetime employment, placement as a marketing job …

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A day with Dr. Peter F. Drucker: business and management, volume XV, tape II

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)

, state agencies, the United States' unemployment rate, microchips and the unemployment rate in Japan and Malaysia, depressed …

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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert - 2005

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …

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