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It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … 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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It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … 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
This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...
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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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related to the gender composition of the firm’s workforce and the gender wage gap. Using a difference-in-difference framework … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …
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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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