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' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external … locus of control for both men and women. …
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Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …
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The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
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The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the … relative ranking of regions in terms of average wages changes considerably. Moreover, regional nominal wages become positively … variation in wages. …
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. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …
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unemployment rates than women. Lastly, there is some evidence that blacks suffered more than whites (again, this difference is …
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