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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015
height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …
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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019
We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...
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Size matters!: body height and labor market discrimination : a cross-European analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - 2009
explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show … that height has a significant effect for the occupational sorting of employed workers but not for the self-employed. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266035
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241319
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Wage inequality in Germany : disentangling demand and supply effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2009
In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply effects on wage inequality in Germany using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) type. Specifically, the methodological contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266038
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276096
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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276167
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Import Competition and U.S. Sentiment Toward China
Arezki, Rabah; Le, Duong Trung; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024
We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...
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