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for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …
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: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers´ well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian … workers is more than explained by differences in wage-related characteristics...T …
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This paper examines the impact of the Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) on the public sector pay of their remit groups. We compare the real weekly earnings of groups of workers in occupations covered by PRBs, in the remainder of the public sector and in the private sector using LFS data from 1993 to 2006...
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Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects …
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This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector …
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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