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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"wage rates"”.
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Working conditions, wage-rates and human capital: a hedonic study.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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A statistical analysis of wage rates in the radio and allied products industry in the United States, during 1947.
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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The effects of various wage rates on farm organization and structure in Southwest Virginia: a study minimizing average outlay when obtaining specified income levels
… undertaken to evaluate the effects of various wage rates on the minimum amounts of resources needed to obtain specified income levels on farms in Southwest Virginia. In addition, the aggregate effects of these wage rates on the structure and organization of farms in this area was determined. A …
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Economic progress and international mobility of human resources: Chinese immigrants in the United States labor market
… Chinese immigrants from the three areas in age, wage rates, years of schooling and industrial and occupational distributions. Immigrants from China tend to be older and less educated (less skilled) than immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In addition, the thesis finds that the three Chinese …
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Fertility And Economic Growth
… 1 focuses on the relation between fertility and wage rates and examines the effects on fertility and growth of subsidies for education and for the cost of rearing children by assuming that agents care about the consumption and number of children. Without education, this model reconciles two …
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Essay on labour supply in transition economies.
… procedure the study fi nds positive and modest wage elasticities of labour supply in all the countries reviewed. This finding is consistent with stylized fact that those countries which inherited high labor force participation rates are relatively insensitive to changes in the wage rates. Apart …
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Regional wage inequality in the United States furniture industry
This study investigates regional average hourly wage differences in the United States furniture industry. County level census data used to compare average wages in the South with average wages in the non-South showed a considerably lower wage structure in the South. Regression models suggest wage …
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Three essays in labor economics
… adjust their production on various margins when wage rates rise. Exploiting state-by-year variation in minimum wage laws, I analyze U.S. manufacturing plants’ responses over a 23-year period using restricted-access Census Microdata. A one-percent increase in production workers’ hourly wages …
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Demand, supply and price of hardwood lumber: an econometric study
… fulfillment of the first objective were that wage rates and price of output of lumber demanders are the most influential factors in the production and usage of hardwood lumber. Exports of domestically produced lumber were found to influence hardwood lumber price, however, the long-run affects …
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An investigation to determine the effects of minimum wage legislation on the Virginia laundry and drycleaning industry
… changes which occurred in (1) employment; (2) wages; (3) scheduled weekly hours; (4) prices; (5) productivity; (6) types of services offered; (7) the extent of mechanization; and (8) plant size and organization. Data for the study is derived from responses of 35 firms to a mail questionnaire …
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Essays on the Economic Well-Being of Women
… men, who have much lower college graduation rates than their female counterparts, do not appear to be affected by distance to a public college. Policymakers should consider this finding when deciding whether to establish new campuses of public college systems or to consolidate two existing …
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Determinants of absenteeism in a retail department store
… were positively correlated with absenteeism. Wage rates were found to be negatively correlated with absenteeism. Minority employees (n=8) had significantly lower absence rates than nonminorities and part-time employees’ absence rates were higher than full-time employees. In addition, …
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The impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothing
… (2) tobit analysis to predict wives’ wage rates; (3) tobit analyses of six separate clothing expenditure models that contained predicted values from (1) and (2); and (4) tobit analysis of a clothing expenditure model that contained predicted values from (2) in addition to dummy …
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A Windows-based roadway maintenance management system
… personnel, street, equipment and material, the wage rates, the lengths of the street segments, the maintenance activities etc. need to be entered into the system before details about projects can be stored. The application has the appropriate functions to allow the user to input such data. The …
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Economic Inequality Through a Contextual Lens: Spatial Variation in Beliefs, Opinion, and Policy Support
… Examining Support for Raising the State Minimum Wage,” I examine whether economic conditions in local residential contexts are associated with support for citizen-initiatives to increase state minimum wage rates. In the third chapter, I highlight variation in the contextual economic …
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An economic analysis of small-scale biodiesel production in Sierra Leone
… small-scale biodiesel production is sensitive to wage rates and input prices. Biodiesel produced from palm kernel oil can be profitable given the correct circumstances. I also find that opportunity cost of diverting palm fruit oil away from food to biodiesel is quiet high and seemingly …
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… Sweatshop workers often work under sub-minimum wages, excessively long hours, and abusive management. Sweatshop establishments in the United States typically violate several U.S. labor laws. Two they commonly violate are the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the ban on …
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Alternative Human Resources Strategies In China: The Rise Of Temporary Employment Relationships And Their Performance Effects
… an adequate supply of skilled labor, when market wage rates are high, and when the product market is geographically concentrated. Second, establishments highly dependent on state resources tend to provide long-term employment opportunities. Finally, as driven by shareholder oriented values and a …
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Determination of projected direct labor time for two methods of satellite feeding: individual prepackaged plate meals and bulk transport meals
… for selected volume levels for both systems. Wage rates used to compute costs represented the highest food service wage rate plus fringe benefits currently paid in the school system. Facial hedonic scales for acceptability of the service systems were given daily to twenty-five randomly …
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A timber supply model and analysis for southwest Virginia
… if factor input prices, such as fuel prices, wage rates, or machinery costs, increase.
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