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A tale of industrial stagnation from Africa

Dagdeviren, Hulya; Mahran, Hatim - In: International Review of Applied Economics 24 (2010) 4, pp. 495-510

-known explanation is that resource endowments in Africa favour land not labour, which results in high wages, especially in comparison … demonstrate that the lack of competitiveness of manufacturing industries is not caused by high wages. Assuming a direct …

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Pension plans and retirement incentives

Disney, Richard; Whitehouse, Edward - World Bank Group - 1999

This paper aims to examine the impact of type of pension scheme on retirement behavior. Section 1 describes a simple, theoretical model of optimal retirement. Section 2 introduces an empirical model of a simple retirement savings plan, or defined contribution pension scheme. Section 3 compares...

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Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s

Rutkowski, Jan J. - World Bank Group - 2001

relative wages that have underlined the rise in earnings inequality. The paper finds that the widening of earnings distribution … transition has been the increase in the premium to university education. Education is currently the single most important …

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Non-performance of the severance pay program in Slovenia

Vodopivec, Milan; Madzar, Lilijana; Dolenc, Primoz - World Bank Group - 2009

Combining information from the firm survey of labor costs with the information about claims filed with the Guarantee Fund by workers whose employers defaulted on their severance pay obligations, the paper analyzes the so-called non-performance problem of severance pay - the fact that coverage,...

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Goel, Deepti; Lang, Kevin - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper is an attempt to fill the knowledge of the role played by network in the labor market assimilation of immigrants and the mechanisms through which networks affect the labor market outcomes of recent immigrants.

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Further Evidence on Wage and Productivity Differentials in Brazil

Rands, Alexandre; Silva, Marcelo Eduardo A. da - Datamétrica Consultoria Econômica - 2003

This paper discusses the relationship between the elasticities of wages and productivity with respect to human capital …

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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach

Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2010

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … workers are imperfect substitutes across broad education groups and across different experience groups. Second, the estimated … elasticities of substitution are used to simulate the impact on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to …

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Government Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

Unni, Jeemol; Scaria, Suma - eSocialSciences - 2010

The perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the embellishment production network in garment industry. The findings are based on the fieldwork conducted in Bareilly situated in Uttar Pradesh,...

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Mobilité géographique et salaires à l'entrée sur le marché du travail

Margirier, Gilles - In: Revue d'économie politique 116 (2006) 5, pp. 657-681

decision, associated with other individual characteristics and education variables and with characteristics of the origin and …

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Raisonner sur les épingles, l'exemple d'Adam Smith sur la division du travail

Peaucelle, Jean-louis - In: Revue d'économie politique 115 (2005) 4, pp. 499-519

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith illustrates the importance of the division of labour with an example of a pin making enterprise. He compares an 18-step production process with an artificial benchmark. Measured productivity is 240times that of the benchmark. This reasoning is negligent. Adam...

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