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Wages, profits and rent-sharing [PDF]
, 1996 The paper suggests a new test for rent-sharing in the U.S. labor market. Using an unbalanced panel from the manufacturing sector, it shows that a rise in a sector's profitability leads after some years to an increase in the long-run level of wages in ...
Blanchflower, David +5 more
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Analysis of the level of gender inequality in the labor market in Kazakhstan
Хабаршысы. Экономика сериясы, 2023 The purpose of this study is to assess the level of gender differences in the labor market of Kazakh-stan before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The relevance of the study is provided by the need to investigate the causes of gender differences and ...
A.A. Kireyeva +2 more
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Accord on “Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”: A Breakthrough Agreement?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This discussion aims to review the emergence of the “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh” signed on May 13, 2013, and evaluate if it is an international agreement “breakthrough”.
Zillur Rahman
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Joint Responsibility at its Peak – Searching for a New Nordic Unemployment Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 Earlier research has shown that the Nordic Ghent systems seem to be weakened. The unemployment insurances administered by the unions have experienced a decline in numbers of members, very similar to the drop in trade union membership.
Tora Dahl
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Job Search With Legal and Illegal Workers: A Comparative Static Analysis
Economics and Business, 2020 This paper incorporates government immigration policy variables in a job search and match framework to examine its implication on labour market outcomes. The main assumption is that illegal workers can be penalized by receiving lower equilibrium wages or
Ogbeifun Lawrence
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How Much to Invest and What Degree to Get? Education As a Strategy on the Labour Market Scale
Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023 When workers hear about a possible promotion, it is common for them to get training, and they can do so through education. However, there is the possibility that the worker needs to receive a salary according to the knowledge acquired in such training ...
Luis Antonio Andrade Rosas +1 more
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Work and Labor in Slow-Progressive Sectors of the Economy
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In the late 1960s, William Baumol demonstrated that structurally unbalanced growth, with the associated cost disease phenomenon, can be expected to have some very particular effects on work and labor in slow-progressive sectors of the economy: performing
Matti Vuorensyrjä
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Labor market in the UK in digital era: The gender dimension
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2021 The article considers gender discrimination in the field of labor relations in the United Kingdom (UK) in the pre-covid period. In the past decades, the Western European countries have made the most significant progress in achieving gender equality in ...
E. A. Mosakova, K. Kizilova
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
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Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Globalization has resulted in structural changes in the labor markets over the last decades. These changes have weakened some of the economic and social dimensions of work.
Natalia Ollus
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