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Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors?
Booth, Alison L; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
According to surprising raw data from the British Household Panel Survey, full-time women are more likely than men to be promoted. Controlling for observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find that women are promoted at roughly the same rate as men, but receive smaller wage increases...
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (SBTC) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of SBTC that determines SBTC’s...
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Trade, Technology and UK Wage Inequality
Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....
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Employment, Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Job Security
Díaz-Vázquez, María del Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …
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How are Product Demand Changes Transmitted to the Labour Market?
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
broader context of labor markets where formal job creation is costly, and where formal employment, informal employment, and …
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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia
Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...
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Tractability in Incentive Contracting
Edmans, Alex; Gabaix, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper identifies a class of multiperiod agency problems in which the optimal contract is tractable (attainable in closed form). By modeling the noise before the action in each period, we force the contract to provide sufficient incentives state-by-state, rather than merely on average. This...
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken … place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty …. The main finding is that the rise in education levels accounts for about one-third of the increase in female employment …
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