The paper analyses the determinants of interwar unemployment using a previously unexploited quarterly data set for 1924-39. Individual equations for insured employment, insured unemployment and the nominal wage rate are estimated and tested. The results indicate that the real wage was an...

Differences in the rate of population growth between developed and developing countries have potentially important implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between nations. This paper focuses on migration-related...

A bonus scheme for tenure systems in which the total wage consists of the base wage and the bonus proportional to the excess production more than the minimum requirement is considered. The existence of the take-off bonus rate below which the employee does not response to the increase of the...

This study examines the impact of structural, content and salary plateaus en engineers' attitudes. The data of this study were collected through structured questionnaires from a sample of 900 engineers in Quebec (Canada).