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How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …
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the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …
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the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644037
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical change - patenting, IT, R&D, TFP and management practices - using new panel data across twelve European countries between 1996-2007. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas...
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This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...
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This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...
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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 … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …
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The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...
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There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non … become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution …. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on …
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
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