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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?
Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024
We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments, we find that having competitive peers as classmates makes students choose and secure...
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The gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ of the European Union
Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Polycarpou, Alexandros; … - 2010
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and...
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Soft skills, competition, and hiring discrimination
Valencia, Christian; Janzen, Sarah; Ghorpade, Yashodhan; … - 2024
contrast, signaling leadership skills has no effect. Last, we consider the role of labor market competition. Companies facing … competition in the labor market, measured by the number of competitors advertising similar positions, are 56 to 66% less likely to … novel evidence that soft skills and labor market competition both play an important role in understanding hiring …
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2008
the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760321
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The value of a statistical injury : new evidence from the Swiss labor market
Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - 2009
prevented injury per year. -- Compensating wage differentials ; value of a statistical injury ; risk measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897516
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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872717
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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975612
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Does it matter who responded to the survey? : trends in the US gender earnings gap revisited
Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae - 2011
their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230688
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More than schooling : understanding gender differences in the labor market when measures of skill are available
Gunewardena, Dileni; King, Elizabeth M.; Valerio, Alexandria - 2018
This paper uses measures of cognitive and noncognitive skills in an expanded definition of human capital to examine how schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income countries. The analysis finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929554
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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010
future. -- Wage growth ; aggregate statistics ; China ; international comparison …
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