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earnings, gender, LGB identity, coupling status, and the disclosure of sexual orientation in English National Health Service … to heterosexuals. The latter is due to similar-sized offsetting effects from disclosure on LGB pay relative to comparable … heterosexuals. Amongst LGB employees, disclosure is associated with 13% more pay, with three quarters of this gap related to …
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earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
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. Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of …
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am) and in the evening (5 pm to 7 pm). I propose such searches as a way of forecasting road conditions. The main result …
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We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
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represent significant increases in worker earnings; the average gift paid to workers attains 22% of average expected earnings in …
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In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...
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We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...
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