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  1. Getting it right
    employment subsidy or minimum wage?
    Published: December 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where... more

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    In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less attractive working conditions reduce it, changes these policy implications. Specifically, a minimum wage policy could, in contrast to an employment subsidy, cause working conditions to deteriorate and welfare to fall. Empirical evidence from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago shows that a minimum wage may indeed cause working conditions to worsen.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor ; IZA DP no. 662
    Subjects: Lohnsubvention; Mindestlohn; Arbeitsbedingungen; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (33 Seiten)
  2. Getting it right
    employment subsidy or minimum wage? ; evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
    Published: March 2002
    Publisher:  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, University of Nottingham, Nottingham

    In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions... more

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    In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less attractive working conditions reduce it, changes these policy implications. Specifically, a minimum wage policy could, in contrast to an employment subsidy, cause working conditions to deteriorate and welfare to fall. Empirical evidence from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago shows that a minimum wage did appear to cause working conditions to worsen.

     

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    Series: CREDIT research paper ; no. 02, 07
    Subjects: Lohnsubvention; Mindestlohn; Arbeitsbedingungen; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten)
  3. Getting it right
    employment subsidy or minimum wage?
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 662
    Subjects: Lohnsubvention; Mindestlohn; Arbeitsbedingungen; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 33 S.
  4. Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more?
    the role of on-the-job training
    Published: October 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted... more

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    Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue still remains unresolved. In a multi-period bargaining framework we show that if firm specific training is more productive in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employeremployee matched data set we show that the foreign wage premium is only acquired by workers over time spent in the firm and only by those that receive on the job training, thus providing empirical support for a firm specific human capital acquisition explanation.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor ; IZA DP no. 590
    Subjects: Lohnniveau; Eigentümerstruktur; Multinationales Unternehmen; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement; Industrie; Ghana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (29 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change
    Published: October 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries,... more

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    Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether skillbiased technological change induced through imports of technology-intensive capital goods or export activity may provide an explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative demand equation based on a translog cost function show that changes in technology through a greater inflow of foreign machinery is found to be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor ; IZA DP no. 596
    Subjects: Lohnstruktur; Qualifikation; Handelsliberalisierung; Technologietransfer; Technischer Fortschritt; Schätzung; Ghana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)
  6. Getting it right: employment subsidy or minimum wage?
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 662
    Subjects: Lohnkostenzuschuss; Mindestlohn; Arbeitsbedingungen; Humanisierung der Arbeit
    Other subjects: (stw)Lohnsubvention; (stw)Mindestlohn; (stw)Arbeitsbedingungen; (stw)Trinidad und Tobago; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur; Buch; Online-Publikation; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
    Scope: 33 S., 21 cm
  7. Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility
    an empirical investigation
    Published: October 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the... more

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    While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these entrepreneurs bring with them some of the knowledge accumulated in the multinational which can be usefully employed in the domestic firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other industries, or received training by multinationals.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor ; IZA DP no. 591
    Subjects: Arbeitsmobilität; Multinationales Unternehmen; Spillover-Effekt; Unternehmenserfolg; Industrie; Ghana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
  8. Efficiency wages and effort
    are hard jobs better?
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 661
    Subjects: Effizienzlohn; Leistungsbeurteilung; Reallohn; Schätzung; Ghana
    Scope: 5 S.
  9. Defining unemployment in developing countries
    evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    RVK Categories: QV 000
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 659
    Subjects: Arbeitslosigkeit; Messung; Arbeitsmarkt
    Other subjects: (stw)Arbeitslosigkeit; (stw)Messung; (stw)Arbeitsmarktstatistik; (stw)Trinidad und Tobago; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur; Buch; Online-Publikation; Als Aufsatz endgültig erschienen
    Scope: 19 S., graph. Darst., 21 cm
  10. Do large employers pay more in developing countries?
    the case of five African countries
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 660
    Subjects: Betriebsgröße; Lohnstruktur; :z Geschichte 1991-1993
    Other subjects: (stw)1991-1993; (stw)Betriebsgröße; (stw)Lohnstruktur; (stw)Afrika; Graue Literatur; Buch; Arbeitspapier; Online-Publikation; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
    Scope: 42 S., graph. Darst., 21 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 29 - 31

  11. Getting it right
    employment subsidy or minimum wage ? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Centre for Research in Economic Development and Internat. Trade, Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham

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    Series: CREDIT research paper ; 02/07
    Subjects: Lohnsubvention; Mindestlohn; Arbeitsbedingungen; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 26 S
  12. Why do rates of β-convergence differ?
    A meta-regression analysis

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    W 529 (0302)
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    Series: Economics discussion papers / University of Otago ; 0302
    Subjects: Einkommensverteilung; Vergleich; International; Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz; Neoklassische Theorie; Wachstumstheorie; Regressionsanalyse; Theorie
    Scope: 28 S
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  13. Defining unemployment in developing countries
    evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 659
    Subjects: Arbeitslosigkeit; Messung; Arbeitsmarktstatistik; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 19 S, graph. Darst
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    Internetausg.: ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp659.pdf

  14. Defining unemployment in developing countries
    evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Bibliothek
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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 659
    Subjects: Arbeitslosigkeit; Messung; Arbeitsmarktstatistik; Trinidad und Tobago
    Scope: 19 S., graph. Darst.
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    Internetausg.: ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp659.pdf

  15. Do large employers pay more in developing countries?
    the case of five African countries
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 660
    Subjects: Betriebsgröße; Lohnstruktur; Afrika
    Scope: 42 S., graph. Darst.
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    Internetausg.: ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp660.pdf

  16. Is education used as a signaling device for productivity in developing countries?
    evidence from Ghana
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: August 2002
    Publisher:  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, University of Nottingham, Nottingham

    This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational signaling... more

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    This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational signaling for individuals who were hired through direct contacts in the firm, and thus for workers for which employers arguably have more information about their true abilities. In contrast, education acts as signal for workers who were hired through more formal channels, although only for those that do not receive on-the-job-training.

     

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    Series: CREDIT research paper ; no. 02, 15
    Subjects: Bildungsniveau; Arbeitsnachfrage; Arbeitsproduktivität; Signalling; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement; Schätzung; Ghana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa Seiten)
  17. Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    RVK Categories: QV 000 ; QV 000
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 596
    Subjects: Lohnstruktur; Qualifikation; Außenhandel; Liberalisierung; Technologietransfer; Technischer Fortschritt; Schätzung; :z Geschichte 1991-1997
    Other subjects: (stw)1991-1997; (stw)Lohnstruktur; (stw)Qualifikation; (stw)Handelsliberalisierung; (stw)Technologietransfer; (stw)Technischer Fortschritt; (stw)Schätzung; (stw)Ghana; Arbeitspapier; Online-Publikation; Buch; Graue Literatur
    Scope: 18 S., 21 cm
  18. Efficiency wages and effort: are hard jobs better?
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 661
    Subjects: Effizienzlohn; Leistungskontrolle; Reallohn; Schätzung
    Other subjects: (stw)Effizienzlohn; (stw)Leistungsbeurteilung; (stw)Reallohn; (stw)Schätzung; (stw)Ghana; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur; Buch; Online-Publikation; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
    Scope: 5 S., 21 cm
  19. Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham ; Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel

  20. Is education used as a signaling device for productivity in developing countries?
    Evidence from Ghana
    Author: Strobl, Eric
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Centre for Research in Economic Development and Internat. Trade, Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham

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    Series: CREDIT research paper ; 02/15
    Subjects: Bildungsniveau; Arbeitsnachfrage; Arbeitsproduktivität; Signalling; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement; Schätzung; Ghana
    Scope: 12 S
  21. Efficiency wages and effort
    are hard jobs better?
    Published: December 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data from Ghana we provide evidence supporting this... more

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    Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data from Ghana we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor ; IZA DP no. 661
    Subjects: Effizienzlohn; Leistungsbeurteilung; Reallohn; Schätzung; Ghana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (5 Seiten)
  22. Why do foreign-owned firms pay more?
    the role of on-the-job training
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

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  23. Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility
    an empirical investigation
  24. Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility
    an empirical investigation
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham ; Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel

  25. Footloose multinationals?
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London ; Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel

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    RVK Categories: QB 910
    Series: CEPR Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London ; 3402
    Subjects: Multinationales Unternehmen; Personalplanung; Volatilität; Großindustrie; Industrie
    Other subjects: (stw)Multinationales Unternehmen; (stw)Personalplanung; (stw)Volatilität; (stw)Industrie; (stw)Irland; Multinationales Unternehmen (STW); Personalbedarf (STW); Volatilität (STW); Verarbeitendes Gewerbe (STW); Irland (STW); Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
    Scope: Online-Ressource