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Are there rewards for language skills? Evidence from the earnings of registered nurses

Coombs, Christopher; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The existing empirical evidence on whether U.S. labor markets reward workers for second-language skills is meager and … positive bilingual-earnings relationship found in the most current research on this topic. We test the relationship using … earnings to be mixed. The relationship is sufficiently frail that statistically significant results eventually dissolve as more …

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A Note on the Link between Firm Size and Exports

Hernandez, Pedro J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper re-examines the link between firm size and exports in order to study the proposal that consists of increasing the firm size to raise exports as a way out of the current economic crisis. The elasticity of export propensity (percentage of exported sales) with respect to firm size...

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A Note on the Link between Firm Size and Exports

Hernandez, Pedro J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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Typical and atypical employment contracts: the case of Italy

Tealdi, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Atypical work refers to employment relationships, which do not conform to the standard model of full-time job of unlimited duration with a single employer. They differ from the typical contract in terms of legal regulations as well as requirements and benefits the worker is entitled to. This...

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Condiciones de trabajo y calidad del empleo en la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Análisis de los determinantes de los puestos de trabajo con bajas remuneraciones en el período 2003 – 2011

Calero, Analía V.; Sorokin, Isidoro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

After the 2001 crisis , Argentina has traveled a path of high economic growth linked to a fast restructuring of the labor market and the throwback of the worsening socio-economic and distributive which initiated in the mid- 70 's, and that deepened during the decade of the 90 's. Yet it persist...

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Employment protection and income inequality: is there a role for the informal sector?

Gkinni, Eleni; Vasilaki, Eleni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper seeks to examine the effect of employment protection on income inequality. By employing the employment protection data developed by Botero et al. (2004) as well as well established measures of economic inequality for a sample of 83 countries, our analysis suggests that increased...

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Income and Livelihoods in the War in Afghanistan

Gavrilova, Evelina; Bove, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper we explore the impact of the insurgency and military deployment on the livelihoods of the local communities in Afghanistan. We use monthly wages and commodity prices at the provincial level over the period 2003-2009 and look for their response to conflict events and ISAF...

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A theory of compliance with minimum wage legislation

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, we introduce firm heterogeneity in the context of a model of non-compliance with minimum wage legislation. The introduction of heterogeneity in the ease with which firms can be monitored for non compliance allows us to show that non-compliance will persist in sectors which are...

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The Impact of Minimum Wage on Average Earnings in the Caribbean using Two-Selected Countries, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica (1980-2011 and 1997-2011)

Bamikole, Oluwafemi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on average wage earnings in two selected countries, Trinidad and Tobago … (1997-2011). The impacts of minimum wage on average earnings are mixed. In the time-series model, the real minimum wage has … a negative and significant impact on the real average earnings, a unit change in the minimum wage decreases earnings by …

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The Role of Agriculture in the Early Phase of Industrialization: Policy implications of Japan's experience

Kasahara, Shigehisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

The paper presents a brief theoretical and historical explanation of the transformative process of the Japanese economy from a stagnant agrarian society to a modern industrial one. Specifically, it analyzes the role of agriculture in the early stage of Japan's development in the last three...

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