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privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …
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concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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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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market size. The union sets wages in function of the firm level labour demand elasticity and the responsiveness of firms to … relocate internationally. If countries are suffciently symmetric lower foreign wages and lower trade costs necessarily lead to … countries it holds that small increases in market size or trade costs makes union wages more sensitive to the foreign wage level. …
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labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that … national wages are likely to be strategic complements (substitutes), if products are ordinary substitutes (complements). Under … the assumption of linear demand it is shown that bilateral trade liberalisation always leads to higher union set wages and …
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Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...
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The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
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Dieses Paper schlägt ein zweistufiges Gewerkschaft-Oligopol-Betriebsrat-Modell über Lohn- und … Beschäftigungsverhandlungen vor. Hierbei wird in der ersten Stufe in Tarifverhandlungen der Lohn ausgehandelt, in der zweiten Stufe die … die Einrichtung eines Betriebsrats immer die Beschäftigungszahl steigert, während der Lohn nicht-monoton beeinflusst wird …
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Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
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