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. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market …
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-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage …
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links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We … randomize workers into treatments where we control relative pay and chances to receive a low or a high wage. Chances can be fair …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low-wage …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …
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In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth … effect is generally higher for females; and that female wage growth from contemporaneous promotion is almost as high as that …
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The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners and monthly profits of the self-employed workers. This paper uses … probit estimation process. We find that, for men, the effect of income on health status is positive and significant for wage …
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identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …
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