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Cycles versus trends : the effects of economic growth on earnings in Bolivia

Muriel Hernández, Beatriz; Vera Cossio, Horacio - 2015

This paper analyzes the effects of economic growth on labor earnings in Bolivia during 1999-2012. More precisely, we … develop a labor market model to capture both cycle and trend effects of prices, and production on earnings, which is estimated … econometrically using pseudo-panel data methods. The results show that labor earnings have had a pro-cyclical behavior. In particular …

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Wage Theft Criminalization

Levin, Benjamin - 2020

Over the past decade, workers' rights activists and legal scholars have embraced the language of “wage theft” in describing the abuses of the contemporary workplace. The phrase invokes a certain moral clarity: theft is wrong. The phrase is not merely a rhetorical flourish. Increasingly, it...

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The Cyclical Behavior of Wages and Profits Under Imperfect Competition

Ambler, Steve; Cardia, Emanuela - 1998

We build a simple dynamic model of the business cycle with monopolistically competitive firms. With simple assumptions concerning firm entry and exit, the model can explain some important stylized facts of the business cycle which standard real business cycle models with perfect competition...

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Asymmetric Wage and Employment Dynamics in Segmented Labour Markets

Murali, Srinivasan; Naresh, Abhishek; Shin, Jong Kook; … - 2022

We document the presence of asymmetric business cycles in both regular and contract labour markets in India, investigate the role of nominal wage rigidities in accounting for these asymmetries, and study optimal inflation policy in such a milieu. Using data from Annual Survey of Industries, we...

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Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes : sexual orientation seems to affect job access and satisfaction, earning prospects, and interaction with colleagues

Drydakis, Nick - 2014

Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...

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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …

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