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New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Gap
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers …
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The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual … of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing and low-skilled labour market outcome. Profit sharing has a positive … effect on the low-skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. Profit sharing for high-skilled workers increases …
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of … compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most … perfect competition, the resulting efficiency loss can be much larger than that imposed by a single firm or principal, who …
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Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes
Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at German universities as an instrument for completing an internship while attending university....
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The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Christofides, Louis N.; Swidinsky, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the acquisition of a second official language. Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763624
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Troske, Kenneth R.; Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reforms from the perspective of the...
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Wage Gaps Large and Small
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The law of one wage does not strictly hold, nor should it be expected to hold, in contemporary labor markets. The law of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This generalization is drawn from research on a diverse set of topics: the...
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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