Search Results - subject:"Compensating differentials"

Globalization and the Wage-Working Conditions Relationship: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories

Warren, Cael - 2009

literature, and their potential sources have been studied in depth. Compensating differentials and efficiency wages are two … efficiency wages or a similar theory more accurately explains the behavior of these exporting firms than compensating … differentials. This positive relationship is stronger in domestically owned firms than in foreign-owned firms, but the relationship …

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2009

arbitrage theory that regions provide equal utility and compensating differentials. …

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

arbitrage theory that regions provide equal utility and compensating differentials. …

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The public sector pay premium, compensating differentials and unions: propensity score matching evidence from Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States

Gibson, John - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 2325-2332

Propensity score matching is used to estimate the size of the public sector pay premium in four countries. Three sets of matching covariates are used; worker characteristics only, then including job attributes and finally adding union membership. When worker characteristics and job attributes are...

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Real Wage Chronology

Peng, Amy; Christofides, Louis N. - Department of Economics, Ryerson University - 2009

We process information in a large number of Canadian wage contracts, signed over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined histories ‘chronologies’. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real...

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The supply and demand of motivated labor: When should we expect to see nonprofit wage gaps?

Jones, Daniel B. - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 1-14

Evidence on whether nonprofit workers earn less than for-profit workers is mixed. I argue that we should only expect wage gaps when labor demand of the nonprofit sector of an industry is low. When labor demand is high, there are not enough “motivated” workers to fulfill demand, so nonprofits...

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Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - In: Journal for labour market research 48 (2015) 4, pp. 271-286

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The supply and demand of motivated labor : when should we expect to see nonprofit wage gaps?

Jones, Daniel B. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 32 (2015), pp. 1-14

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Lohnspreizung und Effizienz

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2008

compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam …

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Have amenities become relatively more important than firm productivity advantages in metropolitan areas?

Deitz, Richard; Abel, Jaison R. - 2008

We analyze patterns of compensating differentials to determine whether a region's bundle of site characteristics has a … 2000. We then decompose compensating differentials into amenity and firm productivity advantage components and examine how …

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