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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers : Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
Seltzer, Andrew - 2012
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...
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Money and Happiness : Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2011
There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal …
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Taking it to the Limit : Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being
Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey; Dettling, Lisa J.; … - 2023
Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human capital and long-run financial well-being. We use variation induced by recent expansions in federal...
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Minu, Startu and All that : Pitfalls in Estimating the Sensitivity of a Worker's Wage to Aggregate Unemployment
Martins, Pedro S. - 2011
In this paper we show that panel estimates of tenure specific sensitivity to the business cycle of wages is subject to serious pitfalls. Three canonical variates used in the literature – the minimum unemployment rate during a worker's time at the firm (min u), the unemployment rate at the...
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University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium : Evidence from the UK
Walker, Ian - 2017
We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the institution *subject* cohort level using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses....
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Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle : Differences between Immigrants and Natives
Dustmann, Christian - 2009
In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...
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The Influence of Wages on Parents' Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Manning, Alan - 2006
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search : A Field Experiment
Belot, Michèle - 2018
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Dhingra, Swati - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...
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