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The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy less, than … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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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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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …
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positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …
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(and trade-off between) investment and wages in Slovenian firms. We find that investment behaviour is more consistent with … display a trade-off between investment and wages, and workers share in firms’ surplus and appropriate funds that are supposed …
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