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The gender pay gap revisited with big data : do methodological choices matter?
Strittmatter, Anthony; Wunsch, Conny - 2021
The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily … unexplained gender pay gap. We study the sensitivity of the estimates with regard to i) the availability of observationally … factors matter greatly. Blinder-Oaxaca estimates of the unexplained gender pay gap decline by up to 39% when we enforce …
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Gender differences in wage expectations and negotiation
Kiessling, Lukas; Pinger, Pia; Seegers, Philipp; … - 2023
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that resembles … reservation wages and that a difference in plans about "boldness" during prospective wage negotiations pertains to gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444193
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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012
Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016
We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416388
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Skills’ substitutability and technological progress : U.S. states 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
effect and provide empirical support for our theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants' career paths and the estimation of their earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509554
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Wage risk and the skill premium
Slavík, Ctirad; Yazici, Hakki - 2020
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263817
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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the dispersion of wages
Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2017
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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Setting adequate wages for workers : managers' work experience, incentive scheme and gender matter
Huber, David; Kühl, Leonie; Szech, Nora - 2022
. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …
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