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Does Smoking Really Harm Your Earnings so Much? Biases in Current Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Applied Economics Letters 17 (2010) 6, pp. 561-564

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past...

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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions

Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457

. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …

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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility

Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59

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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience

Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12

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Overtime Work as a Signaling Device

Anger, Silke - In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55 (2008) 2, pp. 167-189

This paper provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and future benefits. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. In our empirical analysis, we examine whether overtime has in...

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Die Einschränkung des Lohnbildungsspielraums durch die Kosten der Sozialversicherung

Siebert, Horst - In: Die Weltwirtschaft (1997) 1, pp. 1-8

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Arbeitsproduktivität und Löhne in der Europäischen Währungsunion

Siebert, Horst - In: Die Weltwirtschaft (1998) 2, pp. 115-120

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Gibt es genügend Lohndifferenzierung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland?

Gundlach, Erich - In: Die Weltwirtschaft (1986) 1, pp. 74-88

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More evidence on the puzzle of interindustry wage differentials: the case of West Germany

Fels, Joachim; Gundlach, Erich - In: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 126 (1990) 3, pp. 544-560

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Kräftige Entlastung am Arbeitsmarkt: Rein konjunkturell oder nachhaltig?

Eggert, Rolf - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 8, pp. 525-529

Die Arbeitslosigkeit ist 2007 deutlich zurückgegangen, und die sozialversicherungspﬂichtige Beschäftigung nahm nach einem langjährigen Rückgang wieder zu. Welches sind die Ursachen für diese Entwicklung? Ist die Entlastung am Arbeitsmarkt nachhaltig?

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