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Aims to provide an analytical framework investigating the accumulation of human capital in an OLG framework characterized by a continuous interplay between human capital distribution and individual choice of accumulation. This leads to a wide variety of dynamics. Generally, more equal economies...
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analysed. The evidence on the economic effects of unions – on wages, employment, working conditions, negotiations and profits …
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incorporated in a wage‐bargaining model with asymmetric information. Indicates that the impact of multinational enterprise on wages …Considers the role of multinational enterprise in the determination of relative wages. Multinationality of the firm is …
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time in response to changes in collective bargaining, in particular the move from pit‐level piece‐work bargaining to … national‐level day rate bargaining. Given the decline of strike activity in the UK and many other industrialized economies in …
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‐union wages. We find strong evidence supporting the ability to pay hypothesis. There is no indication of bargaining strength …Past studies on foreign corporate investment and wages hypothesize that by expanding into highly concentrated and … highly capital intensive industries, foreign owners are better able to pay higher wages than their domestic counterparts. Our …
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to have a positive effect on a bargaining unit′s duration of normal working during a current contract negotiation. For …
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Relies on cross‐sectional survey data from 1986 and 1993 to explain an increase in the ethnic Turk‐ethnic Bulgarian earnings differential in Bulgaria in the country’s early transition. Empirical evidence indicates that the ethnic Turks closed both the gap in the number of years of...
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that was conducted in ten European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are … close to actual wages, whereas the expectations of the wage gain in the first ten years of professional experience exceed …
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On‐the‐job training has a large positive effect on wages for employees in Sweden, and employees in jobs that require …
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productivity and lower wages. A survey of 120 employers in an upstate New York county provides data on benefits packages and … care also appear to offset part of the cost of these benefits by paying lower entry‐level wages than do their competitors.  …
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