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The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages in Egypt 1990-2007

Said, Mona; Elshennawy, Abeer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

hand, regression analysis shows that the reduction in tariffs and increasing export orientation has been associated with an … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been … significant. Meanwhile, quantile regressions reveal that the impact of both the reduction in tariffs and increase in export …

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Changes in the Earnings Distribution in Slovenia during Rapid Growth, 1991-2005

Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses the dynamics of income inequality of wage earners in Slovenia from 1991 to 2005, using two different datasets. Both are derived from the personal income tax files. The first is obtained by the Statistical Office of Slovenia, extracting all full-time employees from these files...

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The distribution of wages and employee incomes in Slovenia, 1991–2009

Stanovnik, Tine; Verbič, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper analyses the distribution of employee income in Slovenia in the period 1991–2009. The analysis is based on two different datasets, both derived from the personal income tax files. It was shown that income inequality of employees income has somewhat increased in this period, using...

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The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20 years of cross-border migration to Argentina

Battiston, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I use a novel micro-dataset which combines household surveys from Argentina and six other Latin American countries. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the...

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The Unions of the States

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report reviews unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce, and the wage and benefit advantage for union workers in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, using the most recent data available and focusing on the period 2003-2009. Pooling data from...

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The deteriorating labour market conditions and crime: An analysis of Indian states during 2001-2008

Abraham, Vinoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

: Incidence of crime in India has been mounting at a fast pace , especially during the last decade. Moreover, crime on body seems to be increasing in comparison to crime on property. Economics and Sociology literature on crime attributes labour market as a transmitting institution for crime....

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Social returns to education in a developing country

Filiztekin, Alpay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper estimates social returns to education in Turkey. Most evidence on spillovers from human capital comes mostly from developed countries, and estimates vary from country to country. The paper finds that social returns to education are around 3-4%, whereas private returns per year of...

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Decent work in Bulgaria

Beleva, Iskra; Tzanov, Vasil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study develops the issue of Decent work in Bulgaria focusing on employment conditions e.g. employment contracts, working time, wages, health and safety at work place, access to training, conciliation of work and family, as well as some specific issues like child labour, in particular. When...

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Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

About 7.4 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) work in the United States, making up 5.3 percent of the total U.S. workforce. About 7.1 million of these AAPI workers are Asian Americans; about 300,000 are Pacific Islanders. The AAPI workforce is almost 20 times larger today than...

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Gains from Trade? The Net Effect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on U.S. Wages

Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Recent estimates of the U.S. economic gains that would result from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper finds the median wage earner will probably lose as a...

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