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. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. -- Gender earnings … importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Our main findings are that the unadjusted gender earnings gaps are similar … gap ; workplaces ; Britain ; Canada …
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We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...
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causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study … workplace tasks. -- technology use and adoption ; education ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; heterogeneity in …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …
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We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...
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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
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From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the … severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract … accidents. We estimated linear models for a measure of the severity of the workplace accident. We controlled for time …
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Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
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-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the … implementation of workplace organizational change. The associations are stable in 2004 and 2011, despite the intervening recession … between HPWS and workplace performance in the private sector. There was little heterogeneity in effects across sectors within …
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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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