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the medium and better off (46%). Activities demanding better skills, more capital and access to markets (such as …
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This study analyses the relationship between minimum wages, average wages and employment in the Greek private sector … throughout the past decade, using published IKA data on employment and wages, as well as data on minimum statutory wages. It … appears that minimum wages affect a substantial proportion of employees in the Greek private sector, especially in certain …
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Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (1979-94) we find that smokers, compared to their non-smoker counterparts, earn lower wages at the …
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This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
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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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and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages … back and productivity growth remains low, it may be that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last …
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household survey for 1993-2005 by age, gender and education group. With low wages defined as less than 2/3 of the full …
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between 1977 and 1999, the gender gap in wages widened. …
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We analyse the impact of industry on non industrial production, as well as its effect on wages and employment in 6 OECD … policies, for 2009-2012, have had a negative effect on wages and development. The main conclusion is that industrialized …
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