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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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Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...
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Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These … effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The … analysis compares outcomes for young women in California to those for other workers in California and to workers throughout the …
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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
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to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly and …
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Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...
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During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This … differentials, product market regulation and the labor market, wages in male and female jobs, the wage effects of military service …, and interarea wages and cost-of-living. …
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