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Wage Discrimination Against Immigrants : Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2016

Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

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L'Union Fait La Force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity

Grinza, Elena - 2018

discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …

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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Rycx, Francois - 2015

The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...

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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Du Caju, Philip - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Are Occupations Paid What They are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...

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Industry Wage Differentials, Unobserved Ability, and Rent-Sharing : Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data, 1995-2002

Plasman, Robert - 2006

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage differentials among workers with the same observed...

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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Mahy, Benoit; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Melanie - 2021

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...

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