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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining [PDF]
Journal of Labor Economics, 2009 This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use a detailed panel data set covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization process provides exogenous variation in the individual worker's wage-setting system that facilitates ...
Dahl, Christian M. +2 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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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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RESIDUAL WAGE DISPERSION WITH EFFICIENCY WAGES [PDF]
International Economic Review, 2018 AbstractThis article extends a classic on‐the‐job search model of homogeneous workers and firms by introducing a shirking problem. Workers choose their effort levels and search on the job. Firms elicit effort through wages and monitoring; an inverse relationship between wages and monitoring rates is derived.
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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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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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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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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016 Abstract Using micro data for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are characterised by moderate and very similar degrees of cyclicality.
Felix Koenig +2 more
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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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