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with a lower knowledge intensity; their wages fall, which reduces inequality between them and the least skilled. Those who … win can spread their ability over a larger market and because of that enjoy a larger increase in wages than the least …
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It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market. It is not clear, however …
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
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We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work-force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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statistically significant association between the extent of democratic rights and wages received by workers. The association exists … improvements result from the enhancement of democratic institutions: average wages in a country like Mexico would be expected to …
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Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity’s impact on domestic wages: one focusing on spillover …) unionization rates and under high (low) degrees of relatedness. Employing US firm-level panel data on wages combined with industry … cross-border merger activity generate positive spillovers to wages, but are more likely to generate firm-level wage …
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to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …
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strategic interactions among firms are explicitly recognized. Our main aim is to investigate how equilibrium wages and …
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The proposition that labour market adjustments to intra-industry trade are less costly than adjustments to inter-industry trade is a widely-held belief amongst trade economists. If it is the case that there are significant sector-specific skills, then this ‘smooth adjustment hypothesis’...
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