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Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their … workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital …
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-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …
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While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...
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wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … experience and health have positive impacts on wages. …
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This paper examines the determinants of internal migration in a context where wages tend to be rather inflexible at a … reward their skills in terms of both of these dimensions. As an extension to the Borjas framework, the paper thus …
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We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...
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curve regressions, suggest that wages of informal workers decreases and wages of formal workers do not change with higher …
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