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by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is … performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women …
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by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is … performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670114
Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...
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The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: <p> •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data <p> •the...</p></p>
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factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … wages are treated as downward rigid. The analysis remains valid when firms experience constant returns to labour in the … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of …
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depressing effect on their relative wages through world goods prices. In contrast, in the Heckscher-Ohlin model with small open … economies, the skill-bias of local technological changes do not affect wages. Thus, pervasiveness deals with a major criticism … employed despite rising or stable relative wages. Second, increases in demand for skills were concentrated in the same …
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Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically … individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign … negative effect on wages. …
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of earnings for private-sector engineers and business administrators in seven European countries - Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK. The analysis is based on a large micro-data set that is ideally suited for international...
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Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm’s...
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(votes) than all other blockholders together, pay their workers about 6%, or $2,200 per year, higher wages. Since cash flow … with an agency model in which entrenched managers pay high wages because they come with private benefits, such as lower …
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