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, division tenure, performance, and wages among employees within divisions. I find evidence that age dissimilarity, dissimilarity …
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of spectators who are attracted. In this context, the relationship between individual productivity and pay can lead to …
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School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK and US). The emphasis is placed on differences across countries in both the current labour market position of young people and recent trends therein, along with the...
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capital is also prone to becoming obsolete over time. Skills that have been acquired at one point in time may perfectly match … experience-based tasks. Knowledge-based tasks demand skills depending on the actual stock of technological knowledge in a society … whereas experience-based tasks demand skills depending on personal factors and individual experience values. We show, by …
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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
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Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
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to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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-specific inputs in production. In an equilibrium model of the U.S. labor market, we examine the responses of employment and wages to …
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