Cette etude teste sur des echantillons d'employes d'entreprises marocaines, mauriciennes et tunisiennes un modele ameliorant sensiblement la comprehension des processus d'apprentissage en entreprise (Levy-Garboua, 1994). La formation sur le tas fait l'objet d'une analyse grace a une estimation...

The effects on the aggregate unemployment rate of employment-protection provisions has been the subject of considerable debate. This paper shows that if firms pay efficiency wages to encourage effort in the workplace, the effect of increasing employment security is to increase the efficiency...

The current study examines the change in the gender wage gap in Australia over the period 1973 to 1990. The Juhn and Pierce (1991) decomposition is used in order to evaluate the role and relative contribution of changes in observed and unobserved skills and their prices.

We present a competing-auction theory of the labour market, where job candidates auction their labor services to employers. An equilibrium matching function emerges which has many of the features commonly assumed, including constant returns to scale in large economies. The auction process also...

There is a large literature on the positive spillovers frequently thought to be associated with inward foreign direct investment. Aitken et al. (1996) identify several cases, however, where inward FDI appears to have reduced wages in domestic firms. They suggest that this might arise either...

We consider a dual labor market with a continuum of heterogeneous Workers differentiated by their ability of aquiring a specific skill. In the primary sector, jobs require firm specific training and firm set eficiency wages. In the secondary sector, wages are competitive and no training is required.

We consider a continuum of unemployed workers ranked according to their unemployment duration. There are two industries, a high and a low technology one, which compete imperfectly on the labor market. Once employed, each individual must bear a training cost, which is proportional to his...

This paper reexamines the link between career interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a rich new Swedish dataset, we are able to disaggregate time out of work into several components. However, we find that different types of time out have different effects on wages and that these effects vary...