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of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption and wealth … inequality, and analyses how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other comparable … enabled a reduction in wage income inequality, as well as in per capita income inequality, albeit to a lesser extent …
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full employment policy in Canada. A brief critique of existing spatial labor market methods is presented. The focus of this … with Brechling-type models. It is argued, on the basis of the derived results, that a full employment policy would … not attain national levels of full employment. …
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Non-production workers are an increasing proportion of total manufacturing employment. Lower labor productivity has … causes changes in the composition of employment. Industry and geographical variations are, in fact, found in the significance … this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Clark, G. L. (1984). 'The changing composition of regional employment …
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The theoretical heritage of job-search models is reconsidered, with a stress on their roots in neoclassical equilibrium theory. A different conception of the 'imperfect' information problem is proposed, namely what is called 'indeterminate' information. Competing economic and geographical models...
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … dominated by a long-run trend, and firms tend to adjust hours worked and only then employment in the short run. There are …
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without unions, fluctuations in employment, hours worked, and money wages are unlike the patterns predicted by conventional …
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A model of why people do not move between local labor markets is developed by means of a set of concepts derived from the job search and contracts literature. Emphasis is placed on how the environment, in which individuals behave, determines outcomes. It is argued that individuals act...
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stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of reducing turnover is for the individual firm to raise its wage rates …), this could result in widespread wage competition amongst employers and general increases in the aggregate local wage rate …. The significance of quits, hires, and unemployment are explored, in an attempt to explain differential urban wage …
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Incomplete information regarding the location of job offers, their contractual conditions, and tenure prospects typifies US labor markets. Crises of spatial coordination and the allocation of labor demand and supply, amongst other issues, are argued to result from such uncertainties....
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which the substantive nature of capitalist employment contracts is emphasized. The actual agent of allocation is the …
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