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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...
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Border enforcement and selection of Mexican immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando; Lopez, Mary J. - 2010
face of higher migration costs, only immigrants with relatively high expected benefits of migration will choose to migrate …
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Fired and pregnant: gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2020
female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …
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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
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Collective bargaining for women : how unions can create female-friendly jobs
Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022
measures of firm value. We find no evidence that these gains come at the expense of employment, workers' wages, or firm profits …
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Upstreamness, wages and gender : equal benefits for all?
Gagliardi, Nicola; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2019
the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the … manufacturing industry for the period 2002-2010, show that workers earn significantly higher wages when employed in more upstream …
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