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INVESTIGATING THE QUITTING DECISION OF NURSES:PANEL DATA EVIDENCE FROM THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2004

. However, whilst the effect of wages is found to be statistically significant, the predicted impact of an increase in nurses …

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Export Processing Zones in Madagascar: the impact of the dismantling of clothing quotas on employment and labour standards

Cling, Jean-Pierre; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2007

first-hand data, show that average wages in the Zone Franche have become lower than in the formal industrial sector, other …

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MORAL COSTS, THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2001

in the formal or in the informal sector. We analyse the impact of higher punishment fees and a higher audit rate on wages …

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Recent evidence on the relationship between unemployment and wage growth

Aaronson, Daniel; Sullivan, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2000

The current expansion has delivered the lowest unemployment rates in decades, yet nominal wage growth has remained relatively contained. This suggests to some a shift in the historical relationship between unemployment and wage growth. We look across the states for more timely evidence of a...

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The changing pattern of wage growth for low skilled workers

French, Eric; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Taber, Christopher - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2005

We examine the key components that determine an individual's early career wage growth and how these factors have changed for less skilled workers over the last twenty years. In particular, we examine the relative importance of accumulating work experience as compared to the quality of job...

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Earnings inequality and the business cycle

Barlevy, Gadi; Tsiddon, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2004

Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. However, this conclusion is largely based on data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time. This paper examines the connection between long-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality....

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The role of real wages, productivity and fiscal policy in Germany's Great Depression 1928-1937

Fisher, Jonas D.M.; Hornstein, Andreas - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001

-37. In this time period, real wages were countercyclical, and productivity and fiscal policy were procyclical. We use the … neoclassical growth model to investigate how much these factors contribute to the Depression. We find that real wages, which were …

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Women and the Phillips curve: do women’s and men’s labor market outcomes differentially affect real wage growth and inflation?

Anderson, Katharine; Barrow, Lisa; Butcher, Kristin - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003

During the economic expansion of the 1990s, the United States enjoyed both low inflation rates and low levels of unemployment. Juhn, Murphy, and Topel (2002) point out that the low unemployment rates for men in the 1990s were accompanied by historically high rates of non-employment suggesting...

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Unskilled workers in an economy with skill-biased technology

Shi, Shouyong - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1999

This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously generating matching functions for skilled and unskilled workers from a wage-posting game. The model is capable of producing a positive skill premium and a positive wage differential among homogenous unskilled workers....

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The impact of Mexican immigrants on U.S. wage structure

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2007

areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card and Lewis’ study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …

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