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two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … to 1.5% while it increased wages for high-skilled workers by up to 2.6%. This result is robust to a number of different …
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financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: they pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become … unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this … way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey …
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layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …
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This paper uses establishment level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) to examine the effects of new technology on pay. The wage differential associated with new technology is about 5-7% and is (i) robust to corrections for skill, workplace disamenities, and...
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paying higher wages to enjoy non-pecuniary private benefits such as lower effort wage bargaining and improved social …
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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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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4% each. In the long run, the … average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that is the …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …
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