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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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Games with Money and Status: How Best to Incentivize Work

Dubey, Pradeep; Geanakoplos, John - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2014

should do so by using a small number of titles and wage levels. This often results in star wages to the elite performers. …

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The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …

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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity:Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2013

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

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EFECTO DE LA LIBERALIZACIÓN COMERCIAL SOBRE EL BIENESTAR DE LOS HOGARES COSTARRICENSES DURANTE EL PERIODO 1995-2006

Romero, Sergio Chacón; Garita, Jonathan Garita; … - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 31 (2013) 12

En el presente artículo se analiza el efecto que tuvo la liberalización comercial, entendidacomo reducción arancelaria, sobre el bienestar de los hogares costarricenses durante elperiodo 1995-2006. Dicha política tiene un impacto directo en los precios de los bienestransables, lo cual afecta...

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Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

Inwood, Kris; Minns, Chris; Summerfield, Fraser - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

This paper uses Canadian Census data from 1911 to 1931 to trace the labour market assimilation of immigrants up to the onset of the Great Depression. We find that substantial earnings convergence between 1911 and 1921 was reversed between 1921 and 1931, with immigrants from Continental Europe...

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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: is it Worth it for Older Workers ?

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes rapidly for workers aged 45 years and older. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Wößmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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Prizes versus Wages with Envy and Pride

Dubey, Pradeep; Geanakoplos, John; Haimanko, Ori - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2011

We show that if agents are risk neutral, prizes outperform wages if and only if there is sufficient pride and envy … relative to the noisiness of performance. If agents are risk averse, prizes are a necessary supplement to wages (as bonuses). …

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Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining …

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