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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …
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The Legacies of the Soviet Influence in the 1950s: China's 156 Major Industrial Projects
Jin, Zhangfeng - 2021
This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that the adoption of...
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Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017
We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending Gelbach’s (2016) omitted variable bias decomposition procedure to obtain the contribution of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal...
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Assessing the Distributive Effects of Minimum Wage
Borraz, Fernando - 2017
This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay’s sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country’s slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative...
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Digitalization at work, Job Tasks and Wages: Cross-Country evidence from PIAAC1
De La Rica, Sara; Gortazar, Lucas - 2017
The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on job tasks (Abstract, Routine and Manual) across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the worker...
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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany. Much Ado about Nothing?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2017
A number of studies have reported that union decline is associated with rising overall wage inequality, not least in Germany where the phenomenon has been linked to economic resurgence. The present paper takes an unconventional approach to this potential source of rising inequality by examining...
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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession
Garcia-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Tarasonis, Linas - 2017
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...
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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan - 2017
This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, André; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626962
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Firm Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders: Evidence from NLSY79
Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
It is evident that both male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher wages but also have a higher probability of participating in benefit programs than those in smaller establishments. This reinforces the well-documented ‘size’ effect. Further, the firm...
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