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labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring … institutions were holding up relative wages of low-skilled labor which accounts for the disproportionate increase of unemployment …
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first six waves of the British Household Panel Survey. We show that much of the residual variation in wages can be explained … of our findings is that wages are determined principally by individual characteristics - as human capital theory …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …
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wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...
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We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …
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sector, as well as set wages. Workers engage in both off the job and on the job search. We estimate the model using Brazilian …
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This paper presents a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developing countries. We discuss models which seek to explain the empirical finding that openness has increased wage inequality in several developing countries.
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small...
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