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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010
Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669
I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...
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Estimated hedonic wage function and value of life in an African country
Benkhalifa, Abdelaziz; Lanoie, Paul; Ayadi, Mohamed - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3023-3031
This paper reports the first study of compensating wage differentials for work-related fatalities in an African country. Using original data from the Tunisian Caisse nationale de la sécurité sociale, statistically significant compensating wage differentials are found. The implied value of...
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Do differing pay schemes help close the gender gap in overconfidence?
Lahav, Eyal; Nir, Arad; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2107-2114
We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...
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Do differing pay schemes help close the gender gap in overconfidence
Lahav, Eyal; Nir, Arad; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 30-36
We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...
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Firm Exporting and Employee Benefits: First Evidence from Vietnam Manufacturing SMEs
Vu, Huong; Lim, Steven; Holmes, Mark; Doan, Tinh - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 519-535
employment quality. Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2007 and 2009, we find some evidence that export … studies on the export wage premium, the role of export participation on the quality of employment remains largely unexplored … negative effect on employment quality. Nevertheless, the impact of export participation on both wages and employment quality …
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The Inter-Industry Wage Structure of U.S. Multinationals
Martins, Pedro - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2005) 1, pp. 1-7
compare that with U.S. labour-market data. We find substantial differences in employment distributions, that the inter …
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The Inter-Industry Wage Structure of U.S. Multinationals
Martins, Pedro - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2005) 1, pp. 1-7
compare that with U.S. labour-market data. We find substantial differences in employment distributions, that the inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629688
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A Comment on "The consequences of the minimum wage when other wages are bargained over"
Wiemers, Jürgen - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 374-382
unskilled employment in a right-to-manage wage bargaining setting. This comment demonstrates that this result crucially depends …
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A Comment on "The consequences of the minimum wage when other wages are bargained over"
Wiemers, Jürgen - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 374-382
unskilled employment in a right-to-manage wage bargaining setting. This comment demonstrates that this result crucially depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562819
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Promotion Policy and Firm Size
Zax, Ori - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3347-3356
In contrast to the predictions of conventional economic theory, it is well documented that similar workers receive wages positively correlated with the size of the firm employing them. To explain these findings we augment the Waldman (1984) framework by adding a size variable and construct a...
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