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(workers) receive income only from wages while the old (capitalists) receive income only from savings. The authors characterize …
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We analyse the behaviour of a multi-sector small open economy with involuntary unemployment due to fair wages. The …
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This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zoneʺ where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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This paper examines issues raised by the evolution of a rapidly growing small open economy—Singapore—from a labor-intensive, low-technology production base to a capital-intensive, high-technology, knowledge-and-skill-intensive emphasis as it approached the limits of its resource constraints...
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hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the other hand. The latter establishes an exporter wage premium, since … in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries … ; Heterogeneous firms ; Fair wages ; Labour market imperfections ; Exporter wage premium …
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