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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...
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Assessing the Importance of Male and FemalePart-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male...
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Bidding for Talent : A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market
Roussille, Nina; Scuderi, Benjamin - 2023
We develop a procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average,...
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Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Ladders
Biro, Aniko; Bisztray, Márta; Galindo da Fonseca, Joao; … - 2023
accidents, (i) even short (3-12-months long) periods of absence due to accidents decrease individuals' wages for up to two years …
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Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being : Evidence from the Child Care Market
Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2023
This paper combines multiple data sources to study the impact of the minimum wage on service quality and consumer well-being within the child care market. Although child care firms increase teacher pay in response to minimum wage reforms, we find no impact on employment levels. Instead,...
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … more than her husband strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is more …
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The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023
effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers' wages (possibly in the …
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - 2011
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …
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Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the British NCDS
Lindeboom, Maarten - 2009
We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …
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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?
Schweri, Juerg - 2009
estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …
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