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Trade With Central and Eastern Europe: Is It Really a Threat to Wages in the West?

Polgar, Eva Katalin; Woerz, Julia - In: DANUBE: Law and Economics Review (2011) 1, pp. 1-31

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment.We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …

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Wages and prices in Europe before and after the onset of the Monetary Union

Paruolo, Paolo; Girardi, Riccardo - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - 2010

This paper investigates possible structural changes induced by the Euro on the relations among wages, prices and …

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Distribution and Quantile Structural Functions in Treatment Effect Models: Application to Smoking Effects on Wages

Hsu, Yu-Chin; Kan, Kamhon; Lai, Tsung-Chih - Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica - 2015

This paper examines the distribution structural functions (DSFs) and quantile structural functions (QSFs) in a semiparametric treatment effect model. The DSF and QSF are defined as the distribution function and quantile function of the counterfactural outcome when covariates are exogenously...

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Summary of the Report on the Competitiveness of Puerto Rico's Economy

McAndrews, James - In: Speech (2012) June 29

Remarks before the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Annual Convention, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

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Business Taxation and Wages – Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H.R. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between –0.28 to –0.46, once we control for …

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Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between -0.28 to -0.46, once we control for …

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Comparable Wages, Inflation, and School Finance Equity

Taylor, Lori L. - In: Education Finance and Policy 1 (2006) June, pp. 349-371

A Comparable Wage Index (CWI) is an attractive mechanism for measuring geographic variations in the cost of education. A CWI measures uncontrollable variations in educator pay by observing systematic variations in the earnings of comparable workers who are not educators. Together, the 2000...

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The U.S. workforce is substantially older and better-educated than it was at the end of the 1970s. The typical worker in 2010 was seven years older than in 1979. In 2010, over one-third of US workers had a four-year college degree or more, up from just one-fifth in 1979. Given that older and...

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International capital flows, the domestic employment and wages: Perspective from China's different provinces

Li, Wei; Zhang, Zhichao - In: China Finance Review International 2 (2012) June, pp. 286-310

international capital flows on domestic employment and wages in China within a systematic framework; also to reveal whether the … capital outflows will significantly reduce the level of domestic wages. The unofficially recorded capital flows would appear … negatively related to the domestic wages. Due to the complexities of relevant elements, the impact of different international …

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Exchange Rate, External Orientation of Firms and Wage Adjustment

Nucci, Francesco; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

We estimate the effect of exchange rate movements on firm-level wages, using a representative panel of manufacturing …). Through the revenue side, wages tend to rise after a currency depreciation and the effect is more pronounced the higher is the … firm’s exposure to sales from exports. Through the expenditure side, a depreciation induces a cut in the firm’s wages, and …

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