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Family, firms and the gender wage gap in France

Coudin, Elise; Maillard, Sophie; Tô, Maxime - 2018

In France, in 2014, women's hourly wages were on average 14.4 % lower than men's. Beyond differentials in observed characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To answer that question, we apply the approach of...

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Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment : measuring cohort and macro effects

Green, David A.; Worswick, Christopher - 2004

Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born...

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Entering the labour market in a weak economy : scarring and insurance

Cribb, Jonathan; Hood, Andrew; Joyce, Robert - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of entering the labour market when the economy is weak on subsequent living standards using consistent long-running household survey data from the UK. In line with previous research, we find persistent scarring effects on employment and earnings. However, we also...

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The impact of education and training on the labour market experiences of young adults

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - 2000 - Version 2.01

to employment, unemployment or higher education. Family background is an important predictor for participation in higher …

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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle

Low, Hamish (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor); … - 2008

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …

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The value of health insurance : a household job search approach

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco - 2018

Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals not covered by Social Security and broke the link between...

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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2018

Causal effects of a policy change on the hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change when there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...

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Understanding the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled workers : the role of implicit contracts

Green, David A.; Townsend, James - 2009

We examine the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled male workers over the last quarter century by organizing workers into job entry cohorts. We find entry wages for successive cohorts declined until 1997, and then began to recover. Wage profiles steepened for cohorts entering after 1997, but...

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"Klin"-ing up : effects of Polish tax reforms on those in and on those out

Morawski, Leszek (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008

In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. The mean ATR on total labour cost was reduced from 41.6% to 34.0%. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms...

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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock : the distributional consequences of COVID-19

Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2020

Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...

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