Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

The level of the agriculture is one of the most important objectives of the process of enlargement the Czech republic to the European Union. The article presents primary information concerning one part of the management - wage management - in the agricultural enterprises of the montane and...

Labour costs are the total costs of employers which are expended to remunerate work of their employees, to recruit and train and ensure social needs of their employee. Labour costs and the level of the wage are ones of the monitoring indicators of the process of enlargement the Czech Republic to...

This paper estimates returns to education for a sample of farm operators in NorthernIreland. The analysis examines the relationship between education and on-farm andoff-farm labour incomes. Human capital earnings functions are estimated to identifythe marginal return to education measured as...

We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...

A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...

Economics

This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first chapter develops a statistical model that enriches the role that firms playin wage determination, allowing firms to influence both average wages as well as the returns to observable worker characteristics. I exploit the hierarchical nature of...