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The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners and monthly profits of the self-employed workers. This paper uses … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon …
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This paper explores the evolution of average wage paid to employees along the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant in U ….S. Average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity, as the plant survives and ages. As a … plant experiences productivity decline and approaches exit, average wage falls, but more slowly than it rises in the case of …
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demand-side influences following the migration results in significant under-estimation of wage effects due to the shift in …
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slightly less likely to be single. How has this evolution of the average worker affected wage growth, that is, the wage of the … average worker? We conduct two sets of experiments: First, we decompose wage growth between a “growth effect” and a … “distribution effect.” The former measures the effect of a change in the wage function, associating wages with worker types; the …
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This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. We find positive effects on the wages of low-skilled non …-migrants and overall positive effects on employment. The gains partially offset the sharp drop in remittances in the observed … period. The employment gains are concentrated in the agricultural sector, where most return migrants engage in self-employment …
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The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent … in the mid-1990s to 7 percent in 2015. This paper surveys the literature and presents new evidence on the employment and … educated and older workforce, with employment concentrated in health, education, and service occupations and industries …
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The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent … in the mid-1990s to 7 percent in 2015. This paper surveys the literature and presents new evidence on the employment and … educated and older workforce, with employment concentrated in health, education, and service occupations and industries …
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Using detailed IRS administrative data on millions of households, we find that households effectively insure against much of the risk facing primary earners. We show that households face less risk than males alone, and households face roughly half the countercyclical risk increase. As a result...
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-time employment appears to have weakened wage growth even in economies where headline unemployment rates are now at, or below, their …Nominal wage growth in most advanced economies remains markedly lower than it was before the Great Recession of 2008 …-09. This paper finds that the bulk of the wage slowdown is accounted for by labor market slack, inflation expectations, and …
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