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Do Foreign Companies Pay Higher Wages Than Their Local Counterparts In Malaysian Manufacturing?, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

This paper shows that foreign companies pay higher wages than their local counterparts in Malaysian manufacturing. Step-wise regression analysis shows that this is due to two factors. The first, and perhaps the more important, is the greater capital intensity of the production processes used by foreign companies. The second is their tendency to pay wages that they consider, or that are considered to be, commensurate with the wages that they pay in their home countries. This may be called the demonstration effect of wage remuneration in less developed countries.

Non-Cash Incentives And Worker Motivation, Daniel Franklin Cole

Masters Theses

"A problem of growing concern in the United States deals with the poor results of the nation's businesses in terms of productivity. The U.S. is now suffering the worst decline in productivity in a generation. While part of this decline can be attributed to economic conditions, data indicates that the labor force could be more productive if it wanted to do so. A study has shown that 52% of all workers feel they aren't producing at full capacity. Alienation of the American worker is identified as one of the most important contributors to this problem.

Because it is often difficult …

Private Pensions And The Free Market, John Louis Dobra

Dissertations and Theses

In light of the retirement phenomena, the development and utilization of private pensions may be viewed as a market response based on individual and collective recognition of the need to plan to finance retirement from the labor force. This market response however, is shown to have produced a profusion of independent differential pension schemes which may vary with respect to their administrative mechanisms, the type and adequacy of benefits paid, the level at which contributions are made to the plan by participants and the basis of these contributions, and the adequacy of funding. As a result, it is not only …

A Study Of Local Union Business Agents In Portland, Oregon Area, Lillian L. Morrison

Dissertations and Theses

Labor unions are an integral part of the economy of the United States. At the grass roots, union influence and/or effectiveness depends on the local union organization, its management, and its relationship to and involvement in community affairs. This influence and involvement is focused on the local union leadership in the person of the business agent. A substantial body of literature exists on leadership in general as well as specific information about leadership in labor unions, and includes contributions from the fields of Sociology and Psychology as well as Economics. This research paper is a study of local union business …

Population Of Connecticut: Town And County Fact Book, 1970, The, Thomas E. Steahr, Vincent Bolduc, Catherine Skambis

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Egyptian Rice In International Trade, 1960-1970, Abdalla-Fikry M El-Wakil

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

On Reanalyzing The Harris-Todaro Model: Policy Rankings In The Case Of Sector-Specific Sticky Wages, T.N. Srinivasan, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

In a brilliant and pioneering paper, John Harris and Michael Todaro introduced a model with two sectors, manufacturing (urban) and agriculture (rural), a (sticky) minimum wage in manufacturing and consequent unemployment. They also introduced a labor allocation mechanism under which, instead of the usual equalization of actual wages, the actual rural wage was equated with the expected urban wage; the latter was defined as the (sticky) minimum wage weighted by the rate of employment, so that, unlike in the standard rigid-wage models of trade theory (for example, Gottfried Haberler, Bhagwati, Harry Johnson, Louis Lefeber, and Richard Brecher), the unemployment resulting …

The Application Of Legal And Business Policies To State Prison Industries, Daniel Pramuk, Gregory Robinson, William Rotzien

IUSTITIA

The Prison Industries (P.I.) division of the Indiana State Department of Correction presented the challenge of a business function that must be carried out to achieve policy goals established by the legislature. The legal constraints imposed upon P.I. present barriers unique to the regular business community, and yet, analysis of conventional business planning provides a starting point for an analysis of P.l's plan and its implementation, and provides a guide for posing alternative plans. The Pendleton Reformatory was chosen for observation of P.I. in operation and its relation to the prison as an institution.

National Labor Productivity In The Egyptian Economy, 1959/60-1969/70, Nadia Mostafa El Shishini

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Labor Power: Wages And Value, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:

Handwritten note cards titled:

• Minimum Wages & Employment citing Kosters and Welch, “The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Changes in Aggregate Employment” in AER (June 1972)
• Wage & Value of Labor-Power referencing Grundrisse (Pelican 1973, Notebook IV, p. 426) on wages below value of labor-power
• Wages and Value of Labor-Power on the correlation between wage ratios and average cost of education
• Wages as an Advance: Bourgeois Conception of Profit as Reward for Risk referencing TSV I, Ch VI, Section 3 on the circulation of money between capitalist and labourer
• Wages as an Advance. Profit …

Education, Employment And Income Of High School Vocational Agriculture Graduates, R.M. Quesada, S.K. Seaver

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Motivation And The Poor Worker, Charles Barry Pfitzner

Economics Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

An Assessment Of The Validity Of The Unemployment Variable As A Determinant Of Changes In Money Wages In Wage-Estimation Models, James L. Jennings

Economics Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem In The Multi-Commodity Case, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

Ronald Jones, in his seminal paper (1957) on Heckscher-Ohlin theory, has argued that, for the case of two countries, two factors, and several commodities, the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem would remain valid in the following weak sense: "Ordering the commodities with respect to the capital-labor ratios employed in production is to rank them in order of comparative advantage. Demand conditions merely determine the dividing line between exports and imports; it is not possible to break the chain of comparative advantage by exporting, say, the third and fifth commodities and importing the fourth when they are ranked by factor intensity" (p. 85).

It …

Factors Affecting Wages In Basic Steel Industry 1958-1968, Baheya H. Elzayat

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Green Thumb Program, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The Green Thumb program was a prominent national feature of the rural “war on poverty” beginning in early 1966. A public works outdoor beautification program to employ low income older workers. It was modeled on the 1930s era Civilian Conservation Corps, and funded under contract to the National Farmers’ Union by the U.S. Labor Department. By the 1980s, when it was eclipsed by an experimental computer-based video text information delivery system for farmers of the same name Green Thumb had largely disappeared from public view. Today, a Google search with the phrase “Green Thumb program” turns up dozens of references …

Some Ecological And Legal Factors Affecting The Status Of The Employee In The Public Sector In The United Arab Republic, Dimitri Voyiadzis

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Domestic Distortions, Tariffs, And The Theory Of Optimum Subsidy: Some Further Results, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, V.K. Ramaswami, T.N. Srinivasan

Faculty Scholarship

Bhagwati and Ramaswami (1963) showed that if there is a distortion, the Paretian first-best policy is to intervene with a tax (subsidy) at the point at which the distortion occurs. Hence a domestic tax-cum-subsidy with respect to production would be first-best optimal when there was a domestic distortion (defined as the divergence between domestic prices and the marginal rate of transformation in domestic production) just as a tariff policy would be first-best optimal under monopoly power in trade (which involves a foreign distortion). An important corollary, for the case of a distortionary wage differential, is that while a tax-cum-subsidy policy …

Central Bank Of Nigeria Annual Report And Statement Of Accounts For The Year Ended 31st December 1966, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Annual Report

CBN Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for 1966 discussed the economic performance of Nigeria with emphasis on inflation rate, GDP growth, exchange rate stability, banking sector performance, monetary policy, financial stability, fiscal policy, and regulatory updates. The state of the Nigerian economy in 1966 was dictated mainly by the social and political uncertainties that engulfed the country beginning in 1965. The country experienced mounting political problems in 1965, which, by the fourth quarter of that year, had become an important factor in the future investment plans of the business community. A growing burden of external debt and the slow-down …

Population Growth, Economic Growth, And Employment In U.A.R., Darwish M. Wakid

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

International Data, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:

Handwritten note cards titled:

• Wages & Working Day, International citing Gordon C. Winston, “An International Comparison of Income and Hours of Work” in ReStat (February 1966)

Esc 202 Tab Runs_12-31-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

Section I - All Coverages By Industry_06-30-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

Section Ii-Federal Employment By Agency_06-30-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

Section Ii - Federal Employment Agency_03-31-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

Section I - All Coverage By Industry_03-31-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

County Totals 2nd Quarter_1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

1st Quarter County_1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

All Coverage By Industry And Size_1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.

Esc 202 Tab Runs_09-30-1965.Pdf, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The New Mexico ES-202 reports, formally titled Covered Employment and Wages, present comprehensive quarterly data on employment, wages, and establishment counts of workers covered by state unemployment insurance laws. Derived from employer-submitted Unemployment Insurance tax records, the reports offer detailed industry and geographic breakdowns, supporting economic analysis, labor market research, and policy planning. The ES-202 series is part of the national Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and state workforce agencies.