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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor

Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this article we quantify the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of two revenue neutral flat-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S. distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We find that the less progressive reform brings about a 2.4%...

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Flat Tax Reforms: Investment Expensing and Progressivity

Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

of reform brings about sizable output gains and a non-trivial increase in after-tax income inequality. But we also find …

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The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform.

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...

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Spain is Different: Falling Trends of Inequality

Pijoan-Mas, Josep; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this article we characterize the evolution of inequality in hourly wages, hours of work, labor earnings, household … Presupuestos Familiares and the European Household Community Panel. Our analysis shows that inequality in individual net labor … earnings and household net disposable income has decreased substantially. The decreases in the tertiary education premium and …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …

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The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience

Michelacci, Claudio; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

obtain better jobs. We show that job inequality, which leads to within-skill wage differences, gives incentives to work …

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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Labor Supply with Job Assignment under Balanced Growth

Michelacci, Claudio; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

the pace of technological progress accelerates, wage inequality increases and workers participate less often in the labor … market but supply longer hours on the job. This mechanism can explain why, as male wage inequality has increased in the US …

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