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successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …
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Capitalism." Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we perform cross-national analyses on the discrepancy in wages between …
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We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and...
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increases in state, local, and company-specific minimum wages. The once fantastical demand for a $15 an hour wage floor has been …
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more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages …
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wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the intensity of wage markups …
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an increase in wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the …
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This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages. …
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This paper shows that some managers systematically pay higher wages to rank-and-file workers and these managers are … managers and reduce workers' wages, which accounts for a large part of shareholder gains in M&As. These results suggest that … the market for corporate control selects managers who pay low wages and leads to lower wage growth in the labor market …
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