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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …
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Better Protected, Better Paid : Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
Van der Wiel, Karen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861124
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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages:Status or Signal?
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual jobsatisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. Thisruns contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons insubjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861654
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The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK
Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860597
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860221
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862318
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Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
Lemieux, Thomas; MacLeod, William Bentley; Parent, Daniel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We document that an increasing fraction of jobs in the U.S. labor market explicitly payworkers for their performance using bonuses, commissions, or piece-rates. We find thatcompensation in performance-pay jobs is more closely tied to both observed (by theeconometrician) and unobserved productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862774
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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859469