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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age …
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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate. …
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Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I … wages. IV estimates suggest that OLS results are a lower bound for the (partial) causal effect. Thus, if confounding demand …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents, but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
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