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markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and … countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour …
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untrained workers. Additional results on the effect of training on wages indicate that training participation in 1998 increases … wages by 7% in 2000, the wage premium remaining flat along the wage distribution. …
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Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … France in the mid-1990s. This phenomenon is limited to the top end of income distribution and concerns mainly the top 0 … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …
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We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using … by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender … textile sector and for well-educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages. …
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In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …
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This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …
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I use data from the ECHP to assess the effects of adult training on individual labour market performance. Although I find that employee training has a clear impact on wage growth only in the case of young or highly educated employees, it appears to have a stronger impact on employment security...
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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