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(GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study … strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by … union presence variable) on wages in Ghana. We employ the Heckman Selection Model and quantile regression technique to …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … of the wage distribution there are positive effects on wages at higher percentiles. For white collar workers positive … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …
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associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …
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, agents are not informed about their co-workers' wages and efforts, but in the second treatment they are. Our results show …
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-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market power and pay wages below competitive levels, whereas low-wage firms pay … competitive wages. Over time, large, high-wage, high-productivity firms generate increasingly large labour market rents while …
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-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market power and pay wages below competitive levels, whereas low-wage firms pay … competitive wages. Over time, large, high-wage, high-productivity firms generate increasingly large labour market rents while …
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data from 1995 to 2016. Over time, firm- and employee-side labour market power, defined as the difference between wages and …, low-wage, low-MRPL firms possess no labour market power and pay wages equal to or even above their MRPL, whereas large …, high-wage, high-MRPL firms possess high labour market power and pay wages below their MRPL. These wage-MRPL differences …
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data from 1995 to 2016. Over time, firm- and employee-side labour market power, defined as the difference between wages and …, low-wage, low-MRPL firms possess no labour market power and pay wages equal to or even above their MRPL, whereas large …, high-wage, high-MRPL firms possess high labour market power and pay wages below their MRPL. These wage-MRPL differences …
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concentration within smaller cities, primarily help explain the variance of top wages within these cities/labor markets. …
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