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through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression … average of industrial prices from other industries, and by indicators of country wages weighted by industry labour shares for …
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shows the direct effect of a reduction in dismissal costs on increased turnover as well as the second order effects on wages …
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Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2007-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity...
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This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...
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This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in … exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting them to substandard conditions. We first address efforts of activist groups …-country wages. Available theories yield ambiguous predictions, leaving the effects to be examined empirically. We therefore, finally …
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This paper presents another extension of the approach initiated by Brown. As in Brown's work, the wage change specification is used to control for bias due to omitted ability data. Then, as in Duncan and Hoimlund's study, working conditions are measured using subjective self?reported data....
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We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization …
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This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
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We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...
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This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly …. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a modest effect on wages in the newly organized plants, which … Current Population Survey and related data tapes. Second, in contrast co its modest impact on wages, new unionization …
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