Efficiency Wages Revisited: The Internal Reference Perspective (new version) [PDF]
The missing wage rigidity in general equilibrium models of effciency wages is an artifact of the external wage reference perspective conventionally adopted by the literature.
Jean-Pierre DANTHINE, André KURMANN
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Effect of Staffing and Wages on Turnover of Nonclinical Support Staff in Nursing Homes. [PDF]
J Am Med Dir AssocSharma H.
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Mutual Adaptation and Influence: Review of Latent Dynamics Models in Human–Robot Interaction
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Robots are becoming better teammates by learning hidden patterns in how people act. This review covers how state‐of‐the‐art approaches leverage these patterns to help robots not only react but also anticipate and guide cooperation. Here, we synthesize a unifying framework for these approaches, classify and review existing works, and highlight key ...
Mason O. Smith +4 more
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Chinese Penetration and Importer Country Wages: Microevidence From Chile [PDF]
The increasing importance of China in the world trade raises important questions on its impact on importing countries. This paper studies how import competition from China has affected wages in the Chilean Manufacturing Industry.
Roberto Álvarez, Luis Opazo
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Push the Limits: Human‐Like Multimodal Extreme Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Racing
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Autonomous racing tests embodied intelligence under extreme control limits of speed, actuation, and decision‐making. Inspired by human multimodality, we present Apex, an embodied agent deployed on a super‐formula racing car at Yas Marina. Integrating physics‐informed perception, multimodal learning, and tasking, Apex cuts lap times by 15% and achieves ...
Yanxin Zhou +13 more
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Minimum wages and youth employment: Evidence from the Finnish retail trade sector [PDF]
Following an agreement between the trade unions and the employer organisations, Finnish employers could pay less than the existing minimum wage for young workers between 1993 and 1995.
Böckerman, Petri, Uusitalo, Roope
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Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship: the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime. [PDF]
Crime Law Soc ChangeNiezna M.
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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The structure of wages during the economic transition in Romania [PDF]
This paper uses cross-sectional individual data from the 1994 Integrated Household Survey of Romania to analyze the determinants of male and female wages in public and private enterprises.
Skoufias, Emmanuel
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Valuing five centuries of unpaid breastfeeding in England. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AHenderson L, Humphries J.
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