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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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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Social Science Research Network, 2019 We develop a model of size-based market power in a frictional labor market. In the canonical search environment, competition for workers is encoded in outside options.
Gregor Jarosch, J. Nimczik, Isaac Sorkin
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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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Wage Gaps Large and Small [PDF]
, 2008 The law of one wage does not strictly hold, nor should it be expected to hold, in contemporary labor markets. The law of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This generalization is drawn from
Barry T. Hirsch
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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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Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Journal of Labor Economics, 2019 This paper introduces a spatial equilibrium model that relates earnings, employment, and internal migration responses to minimum wage increases. Population moves to or away from regions that increase minimum wages depending on the labor demand elasticity
Joan Monras
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Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2007 The paper compares Cantillon's and Sismondi's views on population, revenue and wage of subsistence, having Malthus' law of population as a background. We assume that the XVIII and XIX century controversies on population and economic development provide a
Mauricio C. Coutinho
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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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Investigating employment patterns and determinants in the European Union through panel data insights
Management şi MarketingEmployment is an important element of inclusive and sustainable economic growth because it has powerful effects on society. At the individual level, employment is a prerequisite for economic independence, social development, and professional satisfaction.
Vasilescu Maria Denisa +3 more
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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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