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This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … while rising markedly in countries moving from communism to free markets and in lower middle income countries. 2. Wages in …
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Using the society-managed health insurance data, which is cross-sectional time-series and covers 1,670 health insurance societies for seven years (FY1995-2001), we found for the first time in Japan that the majority of the employer's contribution to health insurance is shifting back onto the...
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case of high wages imposed on s firm by unions from that in which the firm might be choosing its wage level in order to …. The results show generally positive effects of firm wages on employee experience and tenure as well as on subjective … productivity scores. The firm's wages generally have negative effects on job vacancy rates and positive effects on the perceived …
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Employer-provided benefits are a large and growing share of compensation costs. In this paper, I consider three factors that can affect the value created by employer-sponsored benefits. First, firms have a comparative advantage (for example, due to scale economies or tax treatment) in purchasing...
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-accident compensation onto some workers in the form of reductions in wages. The size of the wage offsets, however, were smaller for union …
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, for the tax treatment of wages under the corporate income tax, and for variations in the user cost of training. They …
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This paper examines the relationship between price growth and skill intensity across 150 manufacturing industries between 1989 and 1995. There are two main findings. First, wage growth and intermediate goods price increases are passed through to final product prices roughly in proportion to...
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sensitivity of employment to the domestic price of imports varies significantly across these nine sectors, whereas industry wages … of unemployment and wages so generated and the actual, historical paths are attributed to the effects of import … in wages in two industries, among the nine studied …
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concentrated industries. We develop a simple model in which the impact of foreign competition on the relative wages of an economy … automobiles is much more deleterious to the wages of the less educated than import competition in an industry such as apparel. We … then test our hypothesis using a panel data set on relative wages across SMSAs. We reinterpret our model as a model of …
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