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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...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David L. - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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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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Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter : Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Ferrall, Christopher - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to … the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are …

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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium : Theory, Evidence and Policy

Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2010

heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application where hedonic models have been most successful at clarifying … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …

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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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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014

Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...

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