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Unionised labour market, efficiency wage and endogenous growth

Bhattacharyya, Chandril; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the effect of unionisation on the growth of the economy in the presence of ‘Efficiency Wage Hypothesis’. We use both ‘Efficient Bargaining’ model and ‘Right to Manage’ model to solve the negotiation problem. Unionisation raises negotiated wage rate and the...

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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to … increase women's productivity, the firm increases their level of employment. In our efficiency-wage theory, women’s lower wages … is explained by assuming that efficiency-wages function for women are believed to be different from those of men. This …

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Skill formation, public expenditure on education and wage inequality: theory and evidence

Biswas, Anindya; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. Empirical observations on some prominent small OECD countries, however, indicate that the relationship between wage inequality and public...

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Public-private wage differentials in Turkey: public policy or market dynamics?

Akarçay- Gürbüz, Ayça; Polat, Sezgin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We evaluate public-private sector wage differentials in Turkey for the years 2005 and 2011, a period marked by educational upgrading and restructuring in public employment. Using micro data from Household Labour Force Surveys we find a positive premium for low wage earners and a penalty of...

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Government’s Restructuring Pay Policy and Job Satisfaction: The Case of Teachers in the Ga West Municipal Assembly of Ghana.

Forson, Joseph Ato; Opoku, Rosemary Afrakomah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper examines the ‘aftermath effect’ of the new civil service pay policy on job satisfaction among teachers in Ghana. We explore an avalanche of job satisfaction theories and instruments to identify key concepts and variables in building a baseline conceptual and research model. The...

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Bayesian Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Conditional Distribution of Earnings of Men in the United States, 1967-1996: Appendices

Geweke, John; Keane, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This study develops practical methods for Bayesian nonparametric inference in regression models. The emphasis is on extending a nonparametric treatment of the regression function to the full conditional distribution. It applies these methods to the relationship of earnings of men in the United...

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Market-based incentives

Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously in a competitive labor market. In equilibrium, strong performance increases the agent's market value. When this value becomes sufficiently high, the threat of the agent's...

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More on Analyzing the Phillips Curve for the United States, 1950-1975

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979

This study has questioned the use of single-equation estimates so common in the analysis of the Phillips curve relation. The analysis in Section II and the empirical results in both Sections III and IV suggest that further research on the Phillips curve relation should consider the merits of...

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Productividad y equidad en la economía española desde una perspectiva internacional (1995 – 2009)

Fuentes Castro, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyzes the productivity of the Spanish economy in relation to the five major European economies and also the allocation of primary income between capital and labor factors. The evolution of productivity in the Spanish economy is weak compared to the European context. Furthermore, it...

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Skill bias, age and organizational change

O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...

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