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| Labour market theory is being challenged by new micro-data about real people, showing the inadequateness of neoclassical paradigm, breaking the path for the new evolutionary approach.
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| A Search Model of Unemployment and Firm Dynamics An agent-based model of labour market with unemployment and endogenous entrepreneurship. |
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| Undeclared work and envelope
wages: a large European survey Wage microdata: a random sample with age, education, sex, marital status, sector, occupation and other variables WHIP:
Huge micro-data archive of 370 000 labour market histories Comparative
time series for employment, unemployment, labour force and working-age
population in 28 countries (1981-2003) Europe, Asia, America and Oceania covered.
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| 2004-2005 World employment
report 2004 Labour market levels and trends in all countries of the world: employment and unemployment in the general population, the youth, the women MS Excel [1200 KB]
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| Comparable wages for 162 jobs in 132 countries The MS Excel file with a user-friendly interface of the excellent dataset by Freeman - Oostendorp. Long-term time-series from 1983 to 1999. This data set allows for comparison of wages across countries for the same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled and unskilled works. MS Excel [2.9 MB]
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| Empirical
survey on vacancies and future skill needs
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| Daily time spent on different activities by employment status, sex, and age MS Excel [19 KB]
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| Wages for 22 500 jobs across all industries The wage distribution with means and medians for a huge number of jobs. How much does a lawyer earn? How many times is he paid more than a food preparation worker? Discover wage inequality thanks to an authoritative US dataset. MS Excel [2.4 MB]
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| Wages in New York A city wage distribution. MS Excel [79 KB]
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| Quality of working life: A review on changes in work organization, conditions of employment and work-life arrangements
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| Wage
Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual
Micro Data
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| Industry-level output, employment, costs, investment, capital stocks over 38 years An excellent dataset for studying the evolution of hundreds of industries. MS Excel [4 MB] Employment in Poland 2005 A lengthy non-technical assessment of reasons and remedies to labour market issues.
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labour standards controversy - Critical issues for developing
countries This policy study addresses the arguments that trade with developing countries is the main source of the troubles afflicting large numbers of workers in the North and that low wages in developing countries give developing countries an unfair competitive edge over business in the North. Such beliefs have led to efforts by Northern trade unions, sections of the North’s business sector and their governments to seek international measures to enforce labour standards in the South. Trade unions urge such measures on the grounds that these would ensure respect for human rights in the South and would help prevent a ‘race to the bottom’ in global labour standards. |
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