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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...
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Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Vorgängen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfordert eine solide und aussagekräftige Datengrundlage. Eine Kerngröße zu deren Verständnis bilden Stundenlöhne. Stundenlöhne erklären beispielsweise, ob und in welchem Umfang Menschen arbeiten und konsumieren, warum und...
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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 … 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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The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
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part of the workers in the sector, the unions are worried about low wages and poor working conditions in the sector. This … workers received between 16 and 18 percent lower wages in 2008. This development appears partly to be explained by a lower …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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