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This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions …
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while the second is based on the income-health matrices. The results confirm the existence of persistent health gradients … period with a peak during the years 2002/2003. These variations appear especially stronger for low-income individuals. …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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It is often argued that rigid labour market and centralized bargaining are harmful employment and growth. This paper looks at the case of Nordic countries as a counter-example pointing to some weaknesses of this view. Rigid labour markets, while reducing the offer of low quality jobs, increase...
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After entering the European Union (EU) Latvia faced new possibilities in international labor market. In 2004 several member states opened their labor markets to workers from Latvia. The largest amount of labor force went to Ireland, Great Britain and Sweden. In these countries salaries were...
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This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
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bargaining performs better than decentralized bargaining in terms of average productivity, unemployment, and income inequality …
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Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...
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Tax reform in small emerging democracies is difficult to measure what effects is likely to produce due to countries’ aggregate political and economic vulnerabilities. If both are taken as remaining relatively stable, then it is easier to discuss what impact the reform introduced may have in...
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This paper analyses the dynamics of income inequality of wage earners in Slovenia from 1991 to 2005, using two … different datasets. Both are derived from the personal income tax files. The first is obtained by the Statistical Office of … tabulating the results. The second source is a large simple random sample from this same personal income tax file; for the …
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