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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Relative Wages"”.
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Relative Wages and Endogenous Growth
… progress and growth are associated with a high relative supply of skilled workers who earn constant or relatively low wages. Chapter 1 of this dissertation reviews recent models of endogenous growth. The 1980s, however, are associated with high technological progress, high relative supply and …
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On the cost of ethnicity : an empirical analysis of relative wages of Hispanics in the United States
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Money Matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity.
… The third chapter analyses whether higher relative wages can motivate teachers to work harder, or more productively, in any way that affects pupil outcomes. Consistent with the predictions of the efficiency wage model, we find that teachers’ relative wages have a positive effect on their …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
… for biomedical scientists, increasing both relative wages and employment. However, because research doctorates in these fields may take six years or more to complete, there is a substantial lag in the labor supply response to changing market conditions. Rational expectations models assume …
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The effect of trade liberalisation and foreign direct investment in Mexico
… and impulse response functions confirmed the relative importance of each variable in the system. 3SLS estimations including instruments of fiscal and monetary policies and inflation, demonstrated that the main determinants of GDP are capital accumulation, labour productivity and FDI. Other …
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Essays on minimum wages and declining wage inequality in Latin America
… to estimate the effects of skill supply on relative wages. I find that the fall in upper-tail inequality is given by changes in the returns to education and experience, while the fall in lower-tail inequality is also explained by those to minimum wage and female workers. Chapter 2 documents …
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Three essays on the family gap and child education
… The first two chapters discuss the difference in wages between mothers and non-mothers, known as the family gap or the motherhood wage gap, and the last chapter discusses child education and parenting. In the first chapter, I analyze recent trends in the motherhood wage gap, taking into account …
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Three Essays on Economic History
… a more complete understanding of the growth of wages within New Zealand and relative to the rest of the world. The key observation on the internal economy is that after growing at more than two per cent per annum up to 1882, the growth rate of real wages slowed to less than two thirds of one per …
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Essays on Gender Differences in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
… women to move towards occupations with higher wages, higher occupational prestige scores and higher male ratios. The estimated effects for women with low grades and from low selectivity colleges are in the opposite direction. Men were also affected by unrestricted access to the pill, as their …
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The gendered effects of tariff liberalisation on local labour markets in post-apartheid South Africa
… tariff liberalisation on gendered employment and wages in manufacturing? 3. How does tariff liberalisation in manufacturing affect wages and employment by gender in the services sector? 4. Does tariff liberalisation drive internal migration? The thesis draws on a regional level database of …