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This study investigates the relationship between firms' competition, wage, CEOs' characteristics, and firm performance … and firm performance. For financial firms, the age of a firm and average wage per employee are negatively associated with …
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-term or indefinite-term contracts. Indefinite-term contracts are associated with higher wage protection than fixed … that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while …
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In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In … order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare the counterfactual wage distribution without … the minimum wage law to the current wage distribution. Such a comparison could reveal partial compliance, where employers …
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Rethinking resistance, power and production.
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of … specifications of a difference-in-differences model to estimate the impact of multiple minimum wage laws in South Africa on …
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We have shown that vocational education does not perform as well as academic education both in labour market outcomes and in the level of basic skills, including literacy and numeracy. This is especially true for higher education. Only at the upper secondary or post-secondary level does...
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early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … enabled a reduction in wage income inequality, as well as in per capita income inequality, albeit to a lesser extent. …
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. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and … further generations. Eliminating racial wage differentials and promoting equal opportunities among citizens with different …
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proxy value for marginal productivity. This study is the first to test the equality between wage and marginal productivity …. However, the productivity gap between these two groups is considerably larger than the wage gap. In small firms, employee … significantly higher than the wage loss. No similar wage-productivity gap exists for large firms. Our findings suggest that …
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. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and … further generations. Eliminating racial wage differentials and promoting equal opportunities among citizens with different …
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