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Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is … gender wage gaps after netting out wage differentials due to differences in characteristics and their coefficients between …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...
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non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …
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Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain … the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …
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penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the …
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This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap …. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the … analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. The …
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model using linked employer-employee data for Sweden from 1985 to 2016. By drawing on detailed firm financials data, we show … secular increase in firm-year pay dispersion in Sweden since 1985 is accounted for by greater persistence of firm pay among …
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers …
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