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Globalisation has proceeded at an unimagined pace in the last few decades. While it has resulted in high growth of global income, questions are raised about the equity of such growth. Disparity seems to be aggravating, as globalisation seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is...
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industry productivity and wages over the first ten years of NAFTA, paying particular attention to the source country and … productivity (TFP). The effect on wages is negative or zero at best, suggesting a divergence from productivity over this time …
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generally find that the unemployment rate, productivity, and real wages have a unit root even if one controls for threshold … the variables of interest. For roughly half of the OECD countries in the sample, the unemployment rate, real wages, and … productivity trend together over time. For four countries (i.e, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the US) the adjustment to the long run …
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The skill biased technological change (SBTC) hypothesis relates earnings inequality to the change in technology with the hypothesis that technology increases the relative demand for skilled labor. In this paper we will investigate the evidence of SBTC hypothesis for two digit level 9 sectors in...
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, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …
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preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower wages. Crowding of immigrants into select …
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Implicit values of amenities and the quality of life in an area can be measured by differences in “real wages” across … areas, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences …
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This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment and obesity and to identify public policies …
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Previous research on migration has focused more on the effect of wage differences between the destination and the origin on migration and less on how non-pecuniary attachments workers have to their current location may affect their migration decisions. In this paper, we examine how the presence...
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this detailed and in-depth research, the impact of teacher wages on students’ achievement was assessed in different ways by … independent variables “wages” was regressed on the dependent variable “students total mean country score”. The results of these … analyses gave an indication that there is a positive impact of teacher wages on students’ performance. …
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