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The gender pay gap in the Australian private sector: Is selection relevant across the wage distribution?
Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen A.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2012
, 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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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings … questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification. …
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Peer salaries and employee satisfaction in the workplace
Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284021
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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012
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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Substitution between individual and cultural capital: Pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278821
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004
earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …
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Immigrant labour market assimilation and arrival effects: evidence from the UK labour force survey
Clark, Ken; Lindley, Joanne - 2006
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267990
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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism: an analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2007
working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … Missouri earnings for employed leavers are unchanged. In both states, the types of jobs leavers hold have not changed …
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
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