Dental nurses are paid no more than shop assistants

Why Are Migrants Paid More ?

1 We thank Jan Van Ours and Michele Pellizzari and participants at seminars in Tilburg and Bocconi for useful comments and Giambattista Rossi, Ph.D student at Birkbeck College, University of London, who supplied us with the data.

21st-century dental assistants are knowledge workers.

There are no Barker arrays having more than two dimensions

Davis, Jedwab and Smith recently proved that there are no 2-dimensional Barker arrays except of size 2×2. We show that the existence of a (d+1)-dimensional Barker array implies the existence of a d-dimensional Barker array with the same number of ±1 elements. We deduce that there are no Barker arrays having more than two dimensions, as conjectured by Dymond in 1992.

[Nurses, nursing technicians and assistants: who experiences more moral distress?].

OBJECTIVE To identify the frequency and intensity of moral distress experienced by nurses, technicians and nursing assistants who worked in hospitals in the South of Rio Grande do Sul State. METHOD A survey research was conducted with 334 nursing workers from three institutions, through a questionnaire of moral distress. Constructs were validated through factorial analysis and Cronbach's alph...

CEP Discussion Paper No 1134 March 2012 Why Are Migrants Paid More ?

In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a substantial wage penalty for domestic workers which persists within firms and is only partially accounted for ...