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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market
Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017
This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
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Mental disorders and lifetime earnings
Salokangas, Henri - 2021
In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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Impacts of outsourcing on wage : new evidence for the Brazilian debate
Campos, André Gambier - 2016
with high likelihood of being outsourced. And, when comparing wages of direct and outsourced employees, it is possible to … notice that outsourced (with high likelihood) face a decrease in their wages, in most of the situations examined. …
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2023
. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477358
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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
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Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2023
. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088380
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The fall and rebound of average establishment size in West Germany
Kovalenko, Tim; Sauerbier, Timo; Schröpf, Benedikt - 2024
In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late 2000s, while the employer size wage premium followed the opposite trajectory. In this paper, we show that these two developments are interrelated. More precisely, our results...
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