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Rural Labor Markets: insights from Indian villages

Reddy, A. Amarender - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 21 (2014) 1, pp. 107-136

In this paper, labour market behaviour in rural India is examined, with the objectives of assessing the structure of the work status among sample individuals and of testing segmented labour market theory. Simple regression techniques and an estimated modified Mincer equation to determine...

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The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2004

When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker … question why withingroup wage inequality among skilled workers as a result of computer technology adoption in the United States … increase until the 1980s. The model also suggests that the slow diffusion of computer technology in Germany along with the …

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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Working hours in Japan: who is time-privileged?

Fuess, Scott M. - 2006

In the U.S. the relationship between hours worked and employee earnings has been reversed. Whereas the highest earners used to work the shortest hours, now they work the longest hours. This study examines whether such a reversal has occurred elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the...

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Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003

Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use, have concluded that wage differentials between computer users and non-users might, among others, be due to...

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The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2005

technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from …

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Can a fifty percent increase in public sector wages improve the position of public sector employees in the long run? An assessment of the public-private income gap in Hungary

Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna - 2011

We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...

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Javíthat-e hosszútávon a közalkalmazottak relatív helyzetén egy 50%-os béremelés? A köz-magán keresetkülönbség elemzése Magyarországon 2002 és 2008 között

Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna - 2013

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Wage determination in China during the reform period

Holz, Carsten A. - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper focuses on the development of the regulatory framework since 1978 and proceeds by examining official regulations regarding labor market institutions and wage setting, and by...

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Can labour mobility reduce imbalances in the euro area?

Berger, Johannes; Strohner, Ludwig - 2022

Labour market developments in the Euro area diverged significantly since 2008. Economic literature frequently refers to labour mobility as pillar for the functioning of currency areas. Applying the CGE model PuMA, we quantitatively analyse to what extent labour mobility can contribute to...

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