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Structural change, collective action, and social unrest in 1930s Spain
Domenech, Jordi; Miley, Thomas Jeffrey - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2013
changes in living standards to explain collective action and social conflict in Spain before the Civil War are incomplete …, before the second Republic, temporary migrants had been the main structural limitation against the stabilization of unions … workers could not be excluded, unions benefitted from republican legislation restricting temporary migrations and, as a …
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377309
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360090
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884144
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Chapter 18. Labor Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1535-1727). 2015
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring “new institutions” into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025327
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Rural Labor Markets: insights from Indian villages
Reddy, A. Amarender - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 21 (2014) 1, pp. 107-136
In this paper, labour market behaviour in rural India is examined, with the objectives of assessing the structure of the work status among sample individuals and of testing segmented labour market theory. Simple regression techniques and an estimated modified Mincer equation to determine...
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Some (Don’t) Like It Hot : The Use of the 'Hot Goods' Injunction in Perishable Agriculture
Koltookian, Stephanie - 2015
From 2001 to 2013, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) used “hot goods” injunctions to crack down on suspected violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act by farmers who employed migrant workers. While the DOL's use of the “hot goods” injunction in perishable agriculture is an effective...
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Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184