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Beyond Wages and Employment: Do Minimum Wages Affect Management Practices?
… research has examined the impact of minimum wages on employment. Yet less explored is whether and how these mandatory wage increases affect the broader spectrum of management practices and job quality. Compensating differentials theory posits that low-wage employers will diminish non-wage …
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Wages and capital
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1966.
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Health Insurance, Pensions and Wages
… provide no evidence of a tradeoff between wages and EHI coverage. On the other hand, the results do suggest that employees who work in states with income taxes are more likely to receive EHI than those in states without income taxes. Fixed effects, first differencing and instrumental …
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Optimal taxation with endogenous wages
… chapters on optimal tax theory with endogenous wages. Chapter 1 studies optimal linear and nonlinear income taxation when firms do not know workers' abilities, and competitively screen them through nonlinear compensation contracts, unobservable to the government, in a Miyazaki-Wilson-Spence …
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Relative Wages and Endogenous Growth
… 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 increasing relative wages of skilled workers. Chapter 2 of this …
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The social cost of low wages
… to place pressure on firms to pay higher wages. They focused their efforts on city-contracted firms as they believed that firms receiving taxpayer dollars should be held accountable to the public. Since the enactment of Baltimore's Living Wage ordinance, over 120 municipalities across the …
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Impacts of Executive Compensation on Employee Wages
… CEO equity-based compensation (EBC) on employee wages. Using pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) as a measure for CEO equity-based compensation, we find that CEOs with higher EBC tend to pay their employees lower wages. We also examine the impact of EBC on average employee wage in different …
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International trade, multinational corporations, and American wages
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Market power effects on health care workers’ wages
Los economistas laborales poco a poco se han interesado por el rol de la concentración de mercado en los salarios. Por medio de una base de datos única que cubre todas las profesiones de la salud en Colombia y bajo el supuesto de que la oferta laboral es proporcional a la demanda, se calcula la …
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Immigration and Wages in the U.S. Labor Market
… theory predicts large negative effects on the wages of competing native-born workers from influxes of immigrants in local markets, the bulk of papers in the literature find only small effects. In this dissertation, I examine the impact of immigration on wages in the U.S. labor market. In the …
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Wages, growth and cycles in the Brazilian economy
… growth. Since the propensity to consume from wages is higher than the one from profit, a redistribution of income towards wages can lead to higher economic growth. The originality of this dissertation is in the use of some new macroeconometric methods to criticize the former position and …
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Railway wages in the United States 1908-1914
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Impacts of Top Five Executives’ Compensation on Employee Wages
… to the top five executives on employee wages. We employ pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) to measure executive incentive compensation. Using data for firms from Wharton Research Data Services over 1992 to 2017 period, we find that there exists a negative relation between executive …
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Reservation wages : measurement and determinants : evidence from the Khayelitsha
Bibliography: leaves 62-67.
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The response of wages and employment to economic shocks
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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