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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
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The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees. I focus on the within-plant diversity of employees’...
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The Chinese labour market has undergone an extensive restructuring in the last four-and-a-half decades, following the start of the economic reforms, and the open door policy for foreign investment in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The nature of employment contracts, labour market...
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positive relationship between employer size and wages has been observed in developed and developing countries. It is, however … determining wages in the larger firms as compared to smaller firms. The main policy implications emanating from the analysis are … the higher investment in skill which increases opportunities for workers in the labor market for higher wages and for jobs …
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Based on the effect of skill-biased technology change (SBTC), this paper builds a search model with heterogeneous firms and workers to explain the dynamics of the wage inequality in the U.S. from 1963-2005. Firms differ in capital intensity (technology content) of the job created and workers...
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arrival, refugees on average experience a 2.99% reduction in wages five years later and a 1.8 percentage point reduction in … wages five years later for high school-educated males and a 5.29% reduction in wages four years later for college-educated. …
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in the national unemployment rate at arrival, refugees experience a 3.45% reduction in wages after five years and a 3 …
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Firms face an optimization problem that requires a maximal quantity output given a quality constraint. How firms should incentivize quantity and quality to meet these dual goals remains an open question, potentially due to limitations of field data. We provide a theoretical model and conduct an...
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Firms face an optimization problem that requires a maximal quantity output given a quality constraint. How firms should incentivize quantity and quality to meet these dual goals remains an open question, potentially due to limitations of field data. We provide a theoretical model and conduct an...
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This study critically examines Dai and Jerath's (2013) influential paper on incentive schemes in inventory management, revealing a substantial flaw: an equilibrium fails to exist for a broad set of parameters allowed by the paper. Illustrated through a specific example, we identify fundamental...
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