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This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...
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dispersion of wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I …
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unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers' wages …
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In contrast to the United States or the United Kingdom where union status is generally tied to the job, the typical unionized worker in Germany is a member of an industry union and there is no direct institutional link between union membership and the worker's wage. Using micro data from the...
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while lower-ranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …
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Before the transition governments had strong distributional objectives, which they pursued mainly by direct controls over state enterprise wage rates and hiring decisions, yielding a highly compressed wage distribution. During the reform they maintained similar controls over state enterprises,...
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The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
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While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be …
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assuming that the traded goods sector is competitive while the non-traded goods sector is oligopolistic, I show that real wages …
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. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …
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