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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268834
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The impact of immigration on the labour market outcomes of native-born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285431
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466459
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822089
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The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish citizen takes the test when turning 18, we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822096
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822111
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A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
Habermalz, Steffen; Monaco, Kristen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight … that real wages in rail, truck, and water transport declined over most of the period and have rebounded since 1996. Within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822121
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The … religious affiliation on wages largely mirrors its influence on educational attainment, although evidence of additional effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148
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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822167