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Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment? : The U.S. Experience

Bell, Linda A. - 1985

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …

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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

Bell, Linda A. - 2000

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups

Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use wage data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS MORG) to study the effect of state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks...

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