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Nýir kjarasamningar og launamunur kynjanna

Olafsdottir, Katrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The paper measures the gender wage differentials among members of the Icelandic public sector union federation Association of Academics (BHM). The collective bargaining agremeents of the member unions have changed dramatically during the last 15 years while the agreements have also been...

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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK – with or against the trade unions?

Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009

A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...

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Do Colleges Shortchange Women? Gender Differences in the Transition from College to Work

Joy, Lois - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 471-475

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Black-White Earnings Differentials: Privatization versus Deregulation

Talley, Wayne K.; Peoples, James - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 164-168

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Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas

McIntosh, Molly Fifer - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 54-57

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment

Duflo, Esther - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 795-813

.19 years of education, as well as a 1.5 to 2.7 percent increase in wages. This implies estimates of economic returns to … education ranging from 6.8 to 10.6 percent. …

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CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCES, THRIFTINESS AND THE REAL EXCHANGE RATE IN A GROWING ECONOMY

Carmen Mar? Mart?ez - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2003

This paper analyses the theoretical relevance of the dynamical aspects of growth on the discussion about the observed positive correlation between per capita real income and real exchange rates. With this purpose, we develop a simple exogenous growth model where the internal, external and...

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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of Return to College Education in China

Fleisher, Belton M; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2005

importance of government subsidies to higher education has declined. …

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Working Paper 22-08 - Wages and employment by level of education and occupation in Belgium

Dumont, Michel - Federal Planning Bureau, Government of Belgium - 2008

believed to emphasize differences between individuals in level of education. However, proponents of a task-based view of … argue that this does not necessarily imply a clear-cut match between the level of education and job opportunities. Belgian … significantly correlated with the level of education but wage growth is not. Occupation seems to explain a statistically significant …

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Spatial and sectoral analysis of productivity-wage dissimilarities in Romania

Goschin, Zizi - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 1 (2007) 1, pp. 33-44

Labour productivity and wages are two major determinants of the economic activity and their connection is a constant concern for the economists, as well as for employers and policy-makers. This paper is aiming to measure to which extent is the variation of productivity consistent with the...

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