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Women's Wages in Full- and Part-Time Jobs in Great Britain
Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...
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Cohort Size and Female Labor Supply
Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and … female net wages therefore stimulate female labor supply. The example of Sweden shows that pronatalist policies can be …
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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data
Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
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Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper studies the effects of labour income taxation on growth in an OLG model where both formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements. We compare them with the effects obtained in a model where only formal schooling matters for skill formation....
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Participation in Paid Work: Multiple Regression Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey
Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985
Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...
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Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006
Philippon, Thomas; Reshef, Ariell - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use detailed information about wages, education and occupations to shed light on the evolution of the U.S. financial … also shows that wages in finance were excessively high around 1930 and from the mid 1990s until 2006. For the recent period …
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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort
Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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Do Markets Favour Women's Human Capital More Than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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Reorganization of Firms and Labour Market Inequality
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …
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