the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of trade openness on the employment and the real wage for the iranian food and beverage industries over the year 2007. for this purpose in this study, the ratio of export to production value has been considered as a proxy for trade openness and the main model has been estimated using a dynamic panel data (dpd) approach. the main findin...

Abstract Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers often pay a premium (or cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked collective bargaining agreements, study the interactions between and cushions quantify impact of sectoral floors. Although wages exhibit “spike” at floor, typical wo...

There is a translation into Hebrew: ʸʫʹʬ ʺʥʩʹʩʠ ʺʥʠʺʰʫʹʮʥ ʺʥʠʥʥʬʤ ʺʣʮʶʤ , ʺʩʡʸ ʠʬʬ Abstract A case for linkage without interest to the average wage is presented. The accuracy and stability of index formulae is examined and price linkage is compared to wage linkage. The linkage of personal loans and mortgages and relevant Halachic questions are discussed. It is explained how accounting in terms ...

EAST Asian economic integration appears on the brink of becoming de jure, not de facto. From the 1980s, East Asia developed high levels of intraregional trade in response to market forces, not preferential trade agreements (PTAs). One reason was rising incomes in Japan and the newly industrialised economies (NIEs) of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, creating an incentive for these econom...

BACKGROUND This article introduces some key labor, economic, and social policies that historically and currently impact occupational health disparities in the United States. METHODS We conducted a broad review of the peer-reviewed and gray literature on the effects of social, economic, and labor policies on occupational health disparities. RESULTS Many populations such as tipped workers, pu...

The decentralisation of Australia's centralised wage fixation system has been seen as providing opportunities for employers and trade unions to tailor working arrangements to suit the needs of the workplace and to provide better paid long-term jobs. This paper details the productivity bargaining between the Private Hospitals' Association of Queensland and The Australian Workers' Union in 1995-9...

There is little disagreement among most economists that countries benefit from trade liberalization. Yet, whether unilateral, multilateral (through the World Trade Organization) or through regional integration agreements (RIAs), trade liberalization has been one of the most controversial economic issues of our time. It is the focus of everyone from politicians to union leaders and anti-globaliz...

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Addit...

The Canadian economy has been a net recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI). The free-trade agreements (FTA and NAFTA) have had to attract more inward FDI. This study examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) between Canada and EU15, Brazil and Japan in the period 1995-2007. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of variables, such as, market size, labour cos...

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Addit...