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Wages in the Indian Bureaucracy. Can Kautilya’s Arthasashtra Provide an Answer? KU Leuven
We compare the wage structure of the Indian bureaucracy with the wage structure recommended by the Arthashastra, a treatise on economics and politics written by Kautilya, the advisor to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta during the fourth century B.C. As compared to Kautilya’s recommendations, the wages in the Indian bureaucracy are highly egalitarian and far lower than those recommended by Kautilya. It is likely that the existing wage structure ...
Money, money, money ... On PhDs, wages and gender : ECOOM Brief 9 Universiteit Gent
Minimum wages and negotiated pay increases: effects on the wage distribution and employment in Belgium KU Leuven
Moderate minimum wages increases are known to be neutral to employment and beneficial for lower tail wage inequality. Spillover-effects are commonly found, but fade out in the upper tail of the wage distribution. This paper investigates the Belgian case, in which minimum wages are indexed and sector specific wage scales institutionalize wage inequality over the full distribution. We find that the national minimum wage has a reducing effect on ...
Bridging the Abyss. Victor Basch’s Political and Aesthetic Mindset KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
This essay cross-examines both the correlation and the disjunction between art philosophy and political reason in the thinking of the French Jewish art philosopher, Kant specialist and socialist politician Victor Basch (1863-1944). Two interwoven lines of questioning will be in play. One considers the extent to which Basch's theory of beauty, which was primarily grounded in a psychological theory of Einfühlung, was a corollary to his political ...
Efficiency wages and inequality Universiteit Antwerpen
Do wages reflect labor productivity? The case of Belgian regions KU Leuven
© 2014, Konings and Marcolin; licensee Springer. We simultaneously estimate a wage and a labor productivity equation where we include regional dummies as explanatory variables. We find that the wage-productivity gap reached 11% for Brussels and 4.2% for Wallonia in the years 2005-2012. This was driven by the negative performance in labor productivity of firms in these regions relative to Flanders, which more than compensated for the advantage in ...