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The Elasticity of Factor Substitution Between Capital and Labor in the U.S. Economy: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Knoblach, Michael; Rößler, Martin; Zwerschke, Patrick - 2016
The elasticity of factor substitution between capital and labor is a crucial parameter in many economic fields. However … and 2016, this paper provides the first meta-regression analysis of capital-labor substitution elasticities for the U …
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Can solidarity be organized "from below" in global supply chains? The case of ExChains
Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke; Helfen, Markus - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 25 (2018) 4, pp. 400-424
Global supply chains in the garment industry are marked by labour standard violations in factories as well as retail stores. Against this background it is important to strengthen the bargaining power of workers along the supply chain. Establishing direct relationships among workers along the...
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Education, Labor Market, and Development: A Review of the Trends and Issues in the Philippines for the Past 25 Years
Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2002
This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429691
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Die Entwicklung der Arbeit und der Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Automobilindustrie: Japan, USA und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Vergleich
Jürgens, Ulrich - In: Management und Partizipation in der Automobilindustrie: …, (pp. 257-280). 1992
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Expensive and low-price places to live: regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in Western Germany
Blien, Uwe; Gartner, Hermann; Stüber, Heiko; Wolf, Katja - 2007
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question is whether wage differences between large cities and the rural country are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. In this paper information on regional price...
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Female labor force participation and child education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we … find that a mother's participation in the labor force increases her children's time spent in school and leads to better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603743
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Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653354
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia
Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016
presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor …
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U.S. Free Trade Agreements and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America
Dewan, Sabina; Ronconi, Lucas - 2014
during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314173