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Holden, Steinar; Wulfsberg, Fredrik - 2007

This paper explores the existence of downward real wage rigidity (drwr) in 19 oecd countries, over the period 1973–1999, using data for hourly nominal earnings at industry level. Based on a nonparametric statistical method, which allows for country and year specific variation in both the...

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Labour Flexibility and Migration in the EU Eastward Enlargement Context: The Case of the Baltic States

Paas, Tiiu; Eamets, Raul - Ezoneplus - 2002

The eastward enlargement of the European Union and the requirements of the European Monetary Union increase pressure for flexibility of labour markets. This paper analyses main changes in the Baltic States’ labour market over the period 1990 - 2001 giving emphasis on the problems of labour...

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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S; Nitzan, Shmuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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Foreign ownership and effects on employment and wages: The case of Sweden

Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas; Svedin, Dick - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

In this paper we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affect employment and wage setting. To study the effects we specify a model that is essentially based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as a market where trade unions and employers bargain over both...

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Work motivation, institutions, and performance

Gächter, Simon; Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

In this paper we study experimentally four remedies to overcome inefficiencies that arise from the incompleteness of contracts. These remedies are reciprocity, repeated game effects, social embeddedness, and incentive contracts. In our baseline treatment we find that reciprocity is a powerful...

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Fairness in the Labour Market – A Survey of Experimental Results

Gächter, Simon; Fehr, Ernst - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

In this chapter we provide a selective survey of experiments to investigate the potential of social motivations in explaining labour market phenomena. We argue that laboratory experiments are a useful instrument to explore issues in labour market theory and personnel economics. Our starting...

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm-Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 485-497

This paper uses firm-level panel data of on-the-job training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end, we apply and extend the control function approach for estimating production functions, which allows us to correct for the endogeneity of input factors and training. We find...

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The Impact of Gender on Mid-Career Labour Income: The Case of Bulgaria

Stoilova, Rumiana; Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Kotzeva, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The impact assessment of education and gender on mid-career labour income in a transitional economy could provide for better understanding of the influence of the labour market dynamics over individuals with different characteristics. Here, we attempt to find an answer to the question: How...

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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas...

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Labour Market Matters - November 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled â€œThe Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …

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