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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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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321056
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity within and between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna - 2009
-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153175
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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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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318031
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Overeducation Among Immigrants in Sweden : Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
Andersson, Pernilla - 2012
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104048
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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