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The family gap in pay: evidence from seven industrialised countries

Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the...

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Product market competition returns to skill and wage inequality

Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...

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Wage distributions by bargaining regime: linked employer-employee data evidence from Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

analyze wage distributions for various labor market subgroups by means of kernel density estimation, variance decompositions …

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The early career gender wage gap

Napari, Sami - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

In Finland the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first 10 years after labor market entry accounting … most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among … university graduates and considers several explanations for the gender wage gap based on the human capital theory, job mobility …

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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the … and less career-oriented than men. The main difference concerns career break expectations which explains 10% of the gender … component of the gender wage gap. Women with a more traditional view concerning childrearing are also found to have less …

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Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation

Thia, Jang Ping - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper presents an economic geography model with two differentiated sectors that exhibit weaker inter and stronger intra-industry input-output linkages. Labour is also differentiated according to skills in a hierarchy of tasks they can perform. Globalisation occurs in two distinct phases,...

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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

Mark, Bryan; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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Skills and Wage Inequality in Greece: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data, 1995-2002

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Kosma, Theodora - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skill in these changes. The methodology adopted is the Machado-Mata counterfactual decomposition, which separates the part of wage changes that is due to job and workers' characteristics (composition...

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Has ICT polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...

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