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Contrasting Revealed Comparative Advantages when Trade is (also) in Intermediate Products

Escaith, Hubert - 2020

The paper reviews and compare a selection of existing and new alternative indicators of Revealed Comparative Advantages, with a special emphasis on trade in intermediate products. The research adopts a statistical approach for both its theoretical and its analytical facets. The formal concepts...

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Economic crisis and the role of state policies in current globalized economy. The case of Greece

Kapitsinis, Nikolaos; Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Almost 80 years after the big crash in USA and a new, bigger and more important crisis has appeared in the globalized economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment, living conditions. One of the states largely affected...

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English Individualism and Continental Altruism? Servants, Remittances and Welfare in Eighteenth-Century Rural Europe.

Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

in preparation of marriage. Whilst in service, adolescents could save part of their wages. As most of them worked in …

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Voluntary work and wages

Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …

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The Signaling Role of Note Being Promoted: Theory and Evidence

Jin, Xin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

’ wages increase. I test my model’s predictions using the personnel records from a large US firm from 1970-1988. I find a …

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Conservative Immigration Policy Reform Has Not Yet Produced Any Significant Improvement in the Aggregate Labour Market Performance of Recent Immigrants

Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...

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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia

Torbenko, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

gross regional product (GRP) per capita and wages in Russia over 2005--2011. Such an influence is not found. The federal … government's policy was reactive and was not focused on decreasing interregional inequality during this period. Wages growth … paper shows that in this period inequality of Russian regions in GRP per capita and wages was diminishing. In the given …

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A NLIP Model on Wage Dispersion and Team Performance

Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using a Non-Linear Integer Programming (NLIP) model, I examine if wage differences between Super talents and Normal players improve the performance of four teams which participate in a tournament, such as in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) group matches. With ad-hoc wage differences, the optimal...

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The effect of high-tech services offshoring on skilled employment: intra-firm evidence

Tamayo, M. P.; Huergo, E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The offshoring of high-tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with consequences for firms demand for skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R&D employment using firm-level data for Spanish...

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Disparity in the structure of wages in Pakistan

Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing, Electric Gas and Water … compare the wages of the outlined sectors with the wage structure of agriculture sector. The Split technique for means has … been deployed to interrogate the data and the propositions of this research. It is revealed in this paper that wages of all …

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