Browsing by Subject "Wages"

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    Can salaries and re-election prevent political corruption? An empirical evidence
    (2018) Benito López, Bernardino; Guillamón López, María Dolores; Bastida, Francisco; Ríos Martínez, Ana María
    Background and objectives: This paper mainly focuses on decisions taken by politicians that may affect the level of municipal corruption. Specifically, we study whether local politicians’ incentives to be corrupt are influenced by the wages they receive and/or their intention to run for next elections. This issue has hardly been empirically tackled before at local level. Method and data: Our sample comprises 358 Spanish municipalities of over 20,000 inhabitants for the period 2004–2009. We use two different methods of estimation, ordinary least squares and ordered logit model, to analyze the influence of politician’s wages and/or their intention to seek re-election on corruption. We utilize as gauge of corruption the total cases of urban corruption (reported in the online press) in each municipality during this period. Results: We show an impact of wages and re-election on corruption. First, relatively higher wages do not reduce politicians’ incentives to be corrupt. Second, when politicians want to be re-elected, corruption decreases. We also find that income level, income inequality, education level, municipal urban revenues and touristic nature of the municipality affect corruption. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that it is necessary that local governments pay particular attention to rules related to the way politicians’ wages are set and the term limits restrictions
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    Extinción indemnizada y medidas cautelares : la exoneración del deber de prestar servicios por parte del trabajador con mantenimiento de la cotización y del percibo de salarios.
    (Colex, 2024) Prol Pastor, Samuel
    Los incumplimientos graves del empresario facultan al trabajador para solicitar la extinción de su contrato de trabajo con derecho al percibo de la indemnización equivalente al despido improcedente con fundamento en el artículo 50 del ET. Además, a través de las medidas cautelares contenidas en el art. 79.7 LRJS, el trabajador puede solicitar al Juez que le exima de la obligación de acudir a su puesto mientras sigue percibiendo su salario y cotizando a la Seguridad Social en el lapso de tiempo que media entre la presentación demanda y la sentencia que resuelva la cuestión por parte del Juzgador.
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    Familia y presupuestos familiares de los trabajadores de una gran empresa minera a principios del siglo XX: Rio Tinto Co Ltd
    (Universitat de Barcelona, 2023-03-31) Martínez Soto, Ángel Pascual; Trescastro-López, Eva María; Pérez de Perceval Verde, Miguel Ángel; Economía Aplicada; Facultad de Economía y Empresa
    The first mining of the industrial revolution was characterised using a high volume of labour and the fact that a large part of the work was carried out underground. This made it necessary to have a considerable proportion of workers specialised in activities related to the mining work itself and who were accustomed to working deep underground. The dependence on this labour force and the need to maintain the mining settlements led to the development of employer strategies that were oriented towards industrial paternalism in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This article analyses the case of Rio Tinto Co Ltd, which can serve as a model for the forms of mining organisation. For this purpose, we rely on exceptional company documentation and the study of local records.