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job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …
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, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are … established, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower returns to their observable …
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Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
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links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …
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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working … from a marked wage decline before entering the temporary help sector. Nevertheless, temporary agency employment does not …
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substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of glass ceilings, in both sectors. The earnings gaps amongst the higher income …
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We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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