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Labor Market Institutions, Wages And Investment
White Papers Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less skilled workers, because minimum wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
IT Wages Fall As Credit Crunch Bites
News The average hourly rate for a financial services contractor is now £44 per hour — a 12 percent drop on wages six months ago when a temp could expect £50 — and the first drop in rates since 2002. The recent stock-market stumbles are already starting...
[October 7, 2008, 12:56]
Government Employment And Wages And Labor Market Performance
White Papers In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an effective counter-cyclical instrument.
[September 18, 2003, 7:01]
Offshoring 'not Lowering IT Wages'
News An IT employment analyst has lashed out at claims that IT workers are unhappy and suffering low wages because of outsourcing. Research released yesterday by e-learning firm SkillSoft said UK IT staff's morale is falling, and that they were blaming...
[July 21, 2005, 9:40]
Fewer Candidates -> Lower Wages ? Seriously
Talkback Mr.Poyiadgi says that reduced competition for IT jobs would result in lower wages. But according to the basic rule of supply and demand just the opposite would be the case: IT wages would rise. Of course all this is a non-issue because UK...
[September 12, 2008, 13:41]
Offshoring Trend Sparks Rise In IT Wages
News Mid-tier IT staff are seeing their wages take an upward tangent, thanks to a skills shortage spawned by offshoring and a lack of students opting for IT courses. The result is a battle among employers for the mid-level candidates that remain...
[August 27, 2008, 9:24]
Foreign Ownership And The Structure Of Wages In Japan
White Papers This paper examines the interactions between FDI and wages in the Japanese labor market. Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the operations of foreign firms in Japan has long been a subject of debate among economists, policymakers and the...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Government Trails Private Sector In IT Wages
News Government IT staff are still being paid less than their private-sector counterparts, according to research from the National Computing Centre. The findings are part of the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) latest Benchmark of Salaries and...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
Yahoo Wages War Against Spam Senders
News In an attempt to block spammers, Yahoo has put into action a controversial technique to help its email service distinguish between human beings and junk-mail-sending software robots. The Internet giant's introduction last month of challenge...
[June 11, 2003, 9:49]
The Role Of Wages And Auditing During A Crackdown On Corruption In The City Of Buenos Aires
White Papers This paper presents a different approach that takes advantage of a crackdown on corruption that occurred in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1996-7. Following allegations of widespread corruption under the previous administration, the newly...
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
BT Wages War On 'cyber-slacking'
News BT Group on Thursday unveiled a new business targeting SMEs who are riddled with inefficiencies resulting from email and Web abuse. BT has invested £3m in setting up the company, called Open Orchard, and has committed a further £3m for the next...
[October 31, 2002, 15:17]
Policies To Foster Human Capital
White Papers In response to the new labor market for skills in which the real wages paid to high-skilled and highly educated workers have increased while the real wages paid to low skilled and less educated workers have decreased, there is renewed interest in...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
BSkyB Partner Closes UK Operations
Talkback I was made redundant when working out of the Saltney depot near Cheser England.BSC made an unlawfull deduction of £806 out of my wages.Court action was taken against BSC and reached the high court of London.BSC was orderd to return any monies...
[December 6, 2003, 4:40]
Explaining International Comovements Of Output And Asset Returns: The Role Of Money And Nominal Rigidities
White Papers Standard business cycle models that assume flexible prices and wages, in the Real Business Cycle tradition, have great difficulties explaining this fact. This paper presents a dynamic-optimizing stochastic general equilibrium model of a two-country...
[September 19, 2003, 4:16]
Macroeconomic Fluctuations In Developing Countries - Some Stylized Facts
White Papers Cross-correlations between domestic industrial output and a large group of macroeconomic variables (including fiscal variables, wages, inflation, money, credit, trade, and exchange rates) are presented.
[September 22, 2003, 0:47]
Wal-Mart Commits Billions To RFID
Talkback They are so cheap they have to hire illegal immigrants, and not pay them fair wages. They have been selling Chinese goods for the last decade, because they are too cheap to pay wages. I can't stand Wal-mart, and I refuse to shop there.
[November 10, 2003, 23:04]
How Does Gender Play A Role In The Earnings Gap?: An Update
White Papers The methodology employed by George Johnson and Gary Solon is used to identify the sources of the relationship between wages and the share of women in an occupation. Johnson and Solon used Current Population Survey (CPS) data to estimate the...
[May 31, 2005, 3:00]
Communication Externalities In Cities
White Papers In turn, more communication should have a positive effect on individual wages. Being in a larger and more educated city makes workers communicate more and in turn this has a positive effects on wages.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Timesheet Calculator 2008
Downloads You put in your start time, start of lunch, end of lunch, end of day and it calculates how many hours you've worked and total wages earned. Unlike other calculators of it's sort, Timesheet Calculator outputs all times in time format, so for example...
[June 20, 2008, 20:31]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
News Under the scheme, UK workers get to install a brand spanking new PC in their homes, originally paid for by their employer, and pay a small amount back every month straight out of their wages. For every employee, a company can get £500-worth of tax...
[January 20, 2004, 10:25]
