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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Wage dispersion"”.
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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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Learning in the labor market
… of learning on labor mobility, labor supply, wage distribution, wage dynamics, and allocations of workers under different assumptions about the nature of employer learning. The first essay develops a model of job mobility and wage dispersion under the assumption that the current employers have …
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Essays on bids and offer matching in the labor market
… of the different institutions for determining wages and conducting the hiring process in the market for new entrants to white collar jobs. The first essay analyzes how does a firm announce and commit to a wage prior to deriving specific information about applicants' productivity and the …
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Wage structures and employment outcomes in New Zealand, and their relationship to technological change
… technologies. This thesis used income and wage data from the New Zealand Population Census and the New Zealand Income Survey to examine wage trends between 1991 and 2004. As in other developed countries wage dispersion was increasing in the 1990s, though it appears to have slowed since …
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Essays on Models of the Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
… search and worker turnover depends on the wage. Bargaining is a standard feature in models without on-the-jobs search, but, due to endogeneity of the match surplus, a solution does not exist when worker turnover depends on the wage. My solution is based on wages being infrequently …
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are equal. In a fairly general matching model, this shape of the wage curve arises due to complementarities of qualities in the production function. When generally higher productivities and wages …
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Three essays on automation, trade, and inequality
… economic activity in large cities and increases wage inequality across regions. I show novel stylized facts about the relationship between city size and the routineness of tasks performed by workers. I develop a general equilibrium model of a spatial economy where automation affects the type of …
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The gender wage gap in developing and transition countries
The aim of my dissertation is to study the gender wage gap with a specific focus on developing and transition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse the gender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing and …
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… at the cost of a pronounced decline in wages. Low-skilled workers suffered the largest wage losses. Furthermore, we decompose the contribution of each reform wave on employment and wages, and document a structural shift in the factors that govern overall wage dispersion.
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Analysing the impact of wage rate and inflation on labour productivity among selected early inflation-targeting countries and emerging market economies
… is the positive relationship between increased wage rate and labour productivity, which then increases the inflationary pressure in a case of IT EMEs as compared to early IT countries. Theories based on prior experiences around the world have led to generalisations of some monetary policies that …