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determined wages. The novelty is to incorporate investment and capital decisions by firms. The subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium … and its comparative statics for wages, capital stock and employment are characterized in various cases. The model is then … describing the determination of capital stock, wages and hours of work performs reasonably well; there are no obvious signs of …
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1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …
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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4% each. In the long run, the … average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that is the …
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explored with the aid of some elements of game theory. It is shown: (a) how labour unions optimally adjust wages to prices …
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The proposition that labour market adjustments to intra-industry trade are less costly than adjustments to inter-industry trade is a widely-held belief amongst trade economists. If it is the case that there are significant sector-specific skills, then this ‘smooth adjustment hypothesis’...
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foreign sector. It is also assumed that wages are not only indexed to the price level, but also respond to the state of the … informational content to wages, over and above the information conveyed by other aggregate prices. The optimal policy in this model … wages are only partially correlated signals about the unobserved disturbances. …
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The paper constructs a simple macroeconomic model that contains a labor market in which insiders have power in wage negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions depend on both the hiring costs and expected dismissal...
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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