and during the same period, the average annual growth rate of hourly labor costs in the United States, Japan, and Germany was 3.1%, 2.9%, and 5.1%, respectively, and the average annual growth rates of Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines were 8.2%, 2.5%, and 6.4%, respectively....
In mid-November, the National Assembly approved the Resolution on State Budget Estimate for 2018, with the decision to increase the General Minimum Salary ("GMS" or aka basic salary as mentioned in the law, or "lương cơ sở" in Vietnamese) from VND1,300,000/month to ...
Because many prices in the public bids severely un- derestimate market prices, we use the prices in job de- scriptions by buyers in our studies in Section 4. Even so, we note that the pricing data has some inherent bi- ases. They are advertised prices and not necessarily the final ...
This topic has not been explored thoroughly at the aggregate level, mainly due to endogeneity of remittances and the difficulty in finding instruments to resolve this issue. To address the endogeneity of remittances, I estimate bilateral remittances and use them to create weighted indicators of ...
But prompted by increased exposure to foreign markets and fearing future global crises, more and more developing countries (including lower middle-income countries such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka) are contemplating to introduce UI. Such considerations are bolstered by the potential efficiency and...
Workers subject to brokerage fees often arrive from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. msn.com/en-xl/money/other/influx-of-indian-workers-in-taiwan-firms-roll-out-welcome-mat-but-prejudices-lurk/ar-BB1p6Kdw?ocid=BingNewsVerp Ralph Jennings◎...
This study uses empirical data to show that the EU immigrants did not influence the unemployment rate and the labor cost in several sectors. However, some policy measures on the labor market were affected by the growing number of EU immigrants. In this context, a possible Italexit could not ...
Although the WTP approach is often used to value environmental changes, it has also been applied in the field of health economics to estimate the economic burden of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease [12], lung cancer [13], influenza [14], malaria [15], and childhood obesity [16]. ...