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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?

Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of … the cultural industries are paid differently compared with their respective main industries. Workers in entertainment and … publishing and printing are less endowed with standard labour market characteristics. However, whereas workers in entertainment …

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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...

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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997

Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …

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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...

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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap

Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...

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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – or because they favor their own kind – are endophilic? This difference matters, as the...

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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...

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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using a new methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-level observable and...

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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