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Government Wage Policy, Wage Determination, and the Development Process: A Case Study of Tanzania
This is a study of the role of government wage policy (GWP) in economic development and labor market behavior with special reference to Tanzania. GWP includes not only direct action on wages, but legal and institutional changes which indirectly affect labor market processes and industrial relations.
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Unions and Wage Structure in Japan: With Emphasis on Interindustry and Interfirm Wage Structures
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:49:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317347.pdf: 6844819 bytes, checksum: d65f4608ee9188314004374e08b3e65a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Minimum Wage States During Recession
This study analyzes the effect of minimum wage legislation during a period of economic recession. In particular, I examine whether states with minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage fared better or worse during the recession that began December 2007. Since minimum wages raise the price …
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Wage Dispersion Between College Majors
… in the individual which lead to higher wages. A degree can also serve as a signaling mechanism to employers, which suggests that an individual may possess specific skills. Higher skills acquired through a college education are compensated with higher wages called the "college wage …
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Minimum wage development and legislation
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Wage Growth and Worker Observability
… this paper is to provide a thorough analysis of wage growth and a firm\'s ability to observe its workers\' productivity.<br /><br />I regress a Mincerian wage equation using data from the March 2009 Supplement of the Consumer Population Survey merged with additional industry data gathered from …
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A Reexamination of the Wage and Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage Onthe Southern Pine Industry
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:33:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7121262.PDF: 6601918 bytes, checksum: d5397822559904e9efa2003357d420b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Wage Policy in a Global World
… essays on the interaction of globalization and wage policy, employment, income distribution and welfare. A specific focus lies thereby on the role of trade unions as one major labor market institution. A brief introductory chapter motivates the general topic before an extended literature review …
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Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
… of research methodologies in the minimum wage debate, focusing on the contrasting perspectives of the neoclassical and institutional models. By examining the changes in research methodologies employed by economists from these two schools, this study seeks to shed the light on the shifting …
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The minimum wage law in Massachusetts
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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A Social Ontology of the Wage
… explore why labour law struggles to provide for wage security and clarity of employment status today. It starts by exploring at a conceptual level the relationship between law and capitalism, before moving on to engage more specifically with the concept of the wage, situating the analysis in a …
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Minimum wage fixing for domestic employees
Summary in English.
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Occupational Skills and Gender Wage Gap
… of three essays studying the occupational wages, skills, and gender wage gap in U.S. and other OECD countries. The analysis especially focuses on how the gender differences in skill levels and skill returns could explain the gender wage gaps and changes. The first chapter outlines the …
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The Geographies of the $15 Wage Movement: New Union Campaigns, Mobility Politics, and Local Minimum Wage Policies
The $15 wage movement has grown substantially since the first $15 minimum wage initiative was passed in SeaTac, Washington in 2013. This dissertation investigates the geographies of the $15 wage movement that has developed in the years since. Taking the form of a three-part comparative case study, …
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Compensating Wage Differentials: An Empirical Test of Their Existence and Impact on the Union/nonunion Wage Differential
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A living wage : strategies for implementation of the minimun wage : the case of the Indian beedi industry
… production and locates in regions that have low wages. Most of the production in the beedi industry is carried out by subcontracting, where the workers are exploited in terms of low wages, lack of social security benefits and poor working conditions. In 1966, the Government of India enacted the …
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Wage Indexation and Money Wages in Brazilian Manufacturing: 1964-1978 (Labor Relations, Unions, Authoritarian, Economic Policy, Wage Drift)
This is a study of the role of the wage and labor policies in the determination of the wages of manufacturing workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the military governments from 1964 to 1978. It is motivated by the worsening of the position of urban workers in the income distribution between 1960 and …
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The role of ability to pay and internal labor market processes in wage and gender-related wage differentials
… attempts to identify factors that influence wage and gender-related wage differentials across organizations. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate the role of ability to pay, willingness to pay, and organizational characteristics in wage determination and the development of …
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An Economic Analysis of Regional Wage Adjustments
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