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This paper presents a simple model that examines the impact of offshoring and immigration on wages and tests these … more positive impact on low-skilled wages than immigration, but this gap decreases with the workers' skill level. The …, the results provide important insight into how specific components of offshoring and immigration affect the wages of …
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Product markets are the foundation on which industrial relations institutions are built. Trade union strength is partly dependent upon the state of the labour market, but it is imperfections in the product market that are the precondition of their winning benefits for their members. Sectoral...
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, unemployment and wages during the last two decades. The evidence suggests that, in the long-run, monetary policy has been neutral … of monetary policy, the way in which wages are set and the increase in non-wage labor costs. …
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Relies on cross‐sectional survey data from 1986 and 1993 to explain an increase in the ethnic Turk‐ethnic Bulgarian earnings differential in Bulgaria in the country’s early transition. Empirical evidence indicates that the ethnic Turks closed both the gap in the number of years of...
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that was conducted in ten European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are … close to actual wages, whereas the expectations of the wage gain in the first ten years of professional experience exceed …
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On‐the‐job training has a large positive effect on wages for employees in Sweden, and employees in jobs that require …
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productivity and lower wages. A survey of 120 employers in an upstate New York county provides data on benefits packages and … care also appear to offset part of the cost of these benefits by paying lower entry‐level wages than do their competitors.  …
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; their wages are substantially higher than what they would have obtained had they chosen paid work. Furthermore, even after …
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compared to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly with workers …/value – These findings contribute to the growing literature on how the workforce age structure affects productivity and wages.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether job assignment, based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ abilities, can explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms. Design/methodology/approach – The Gibbons and Waldman model is estimated in...
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