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What really happened to British inequality in the early 20th century? : evidence from national household expenditure surveys 1890-1961
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012
Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013
Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …
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Industries, mega firms, and increasing inequality
Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - 2022
Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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Wage inequality and labor rights violations
Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021
Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …
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An analysis of the changes in British workers' real wages since the 19th century
Pencavel, John H. - 2024
The increase in the real wages of British workers over the last one hundred years is often attributed to the growth in labour productivity, but this has rarely been confirmed. In the research reported here, this ascription is confronted with annual observations on wages and productivity spanning...
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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK
Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren - 2014
more. This implies that the abolition of the "two-tier" education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369819
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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data
Ziegler, Lennart - 2021
This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...
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Disability and the unionized workplace
Ameri, Mason; Ali, Mohammad; Schur, Lisa A.; Kruse, … - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions affect their employment experiences. To address this, we analyze monthly U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 2009 through 2017 and find that the unionization rate...
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