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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136720
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Jones, Melanie K. - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155565
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775710
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Reaching High : Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK
Kleibrink, Jan - 2014
The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics university status. Using the British Household Panel Survey and accounting for different sources of selection bias, we show that wage differentials between university and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051806
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From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics
Uhlendorff, Arne - 2021
This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317300
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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso - 2013
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071281
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Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We … further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the … outcomes by exploring the differences in the country of origin and age at arrival across childhood immigrants. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868798
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Mind the Gap : A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - 2011
primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118775
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The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries
Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2021
In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318042