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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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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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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment Across Developing Countries

Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022

formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality …

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The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022

compression" of wages since early 2020 (Autor and Dube, 2022) is partly explained by the same amenity-value effect, which operates …

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Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Fang, Tony; Hartley, John - 2022

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their …

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Training, Productivity and Wages : Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency

Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022

temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages …

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Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations

Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain the gap. In...

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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …

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Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2022

In analyses of minimum wages, positive "ripple effects" and subminimum wages are difficult to distinguish from …

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...

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