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Labour Market Concentration and Migration Patterns in Russia

Bignebat, C. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2006

The following development proposes to focus on an underestimated aspect of the Russian restructuring process, namely the evolution of single industry areas throughout transition. We argue that the highly concentrated structure of the post-soviet labour market influences the transformation trend...

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The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?

Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007

This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish citizen takes the test when turning 18, we are able to...

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WHY DID THE PRODUCTIVITY OF AUSTRALIAN LABOUR GROW SLOWER IN THE 1980?; TIME SERIES AND CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TRENDS AND CAUSES.

DOWRICK, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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Trends in the Australian Gender Wage Differential over the 1980's: Some Evidence on the Effectiveness of Economic Reform.

Kidd, M.P.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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IMMIGRANT QUALIFICATIONS: RECOGNITION AND RELATIVE WAGE OUTPUT.

CHAPMEN, B.J.; IREDALE, R.R. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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Poverty in New York City, 1969-99: the influence of demographic change, income growth, and income inequality

Levitan, Mark K.; Wieler, Susan S. - In: Economic Policy Review (2008) Jul, pp. 13-30

traced to the stagnation of wages at the low end of the earnings distribution. …

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The role of real wages, productivity, and fiscal policy in Germany's Great Depression, 1928-37

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

-37. In this time period, real wages were countercyclical, and productivity and fiscal policy was 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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On the employment effect of technology : evidence from U.S. manufacturing for 1958-1996

Chang, Yongsung; Hong, Jay H. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2003

Recently, Galí and others have found that technological progress may be contractionary: a favorable technology shock reduces hours worked in the short run. We ask whether this observation is robust in disaggregate data. According to our VAR analysis of 458 four-digit U.S. manufacturing...

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Wage growth and the inflation process: an empirical note

Mehra, Yash P. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 1989

A central proposition in the Phillips curve view of the inflation process is that prices are marked up over productivity-adjusted labor costs. If that is true, then long-run movements in prices and labor costs must be correlated. If long-run movements in a time series are modeled as a stochastic...

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A quantitative theory of the gender gap in wages

Erosa, Andres; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2005

Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages … labor supply and wages over the life cycle. In our model, fertility lowers the lifetime intensity of market activity … fertility accounts for most of the gender differences in labor supply and wages during the life cycle documented in the NLSY …

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