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Monopsony power, pay structure and training
Mühlemann, Samuel; Ryan, Paul; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market 'thinness'. We...
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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...
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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...
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The gender-career estimation gap
Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014
The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations … empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector … that constitute a gender-career estimation gap. As the German public sector contains specific devices to equalising career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356679
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012
contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683245
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...
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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224590
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The cost of acting "girly" : gender stereotypes and educational choices
Favara, Marta - 2012
This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are under-represented in many technical degrees, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674950
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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
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