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evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also asymmetry in quasi rent elasticity of wages. The wage setting …, wages in state firms are highly responsive to regional labour market conditions, while firms in other sectors are not. Rent …
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Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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effects, where unemployment modify the impact of availability of rents on wages. We interpret our results as an indication … indicator of reservation wage which is closest to the theoretical model specification and combines sectoral wages, unemployment … position of workers leads to higher ability to pay elasticity of wages, and lower outside option elasticity. Our results …
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The paper summarizes information on health staffing trends in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and provides some comparisons with Western countries, especiially in the European Union. It looks at the broad economic, social and political background to the present situation, with...
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-2001. We investigate the impact of wages, output growth, investment, firm size and sectors upon employment, focusing on the … employment dynamics is not affected by alternative wages and therefore appears consistent with the ‘right to manage’ model …
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related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation. A key focus is to determine … ownership; (iii) allocation of ownership depends on the pre-privatisation origin and location of the firm, and these factors …
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Using data from a large enterprise-level panel designed to address this issue, we account for enterprise performance in Russia. We link performance to four aspects of the economic environment: enterprise ownership; corporate governance; market structures and competition; and financial constraints....
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hours worked across sectors. Evidence also indicates that newly privatized state enterprises pay higher wages than state … similar throughout the period. Higher wages in privatized firms likely reflects rent-sharing between workers and managers …
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