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Reformatory policies and factor prices in a developing economy with informal sector

Mandal, Biswajit; Ghosh, Sujata - 2019

Effects of different reformatory policies have always been a pulsating concern for the researchers and policy makers. Considering this concern, this paper attempts to check various effects of reformatory policies such as labor market reform, tariff cut, change in subsidy, bureaucratic reform in...

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...

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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …

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Unobserved worker quality and inter-industry wage differentials

Ge, Suqin; Macieira, João - 2020

This study quantitatively assesses two alternative explanations for inter-industry wage differentials: worker heterogeneity in the formof unobserved quality and firmheterogeneity in the form of a firm's willingness to pay (WTP) for workers' productive attributes. We develop an empirical hedonic...

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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...

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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China

Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022

In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...

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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

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Telework and time use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021

on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity … for some. There is also evidence that telework can increase productivity for some workers and those workers may …

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Wages and productivity in Argentinian manufacturing : a structuralist and distributional firm-level analysis

Gómez, María Celeste; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across … sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should …

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Home sweet home : working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Deole, Sumit S.; Deter, Max; Huang, Yue - 2021

-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly working hours among the employed. The WFH-productivity relationship is stronger for …

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