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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?
Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of … the cultural industries are paid differently compared with their respective main industries. Workers in entertainment and … publishing and printing are less endowed with standard labour market characteristics. However, whereas workers in entertainment …
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2005
-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262658
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
Heitmüller, Axel - 2004
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274204
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Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703324
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822237
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Television, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2021
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is unclear. Negative consequences portrayed in the literature raise the question whether this popular pastime constitutes an economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example...
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - 2013
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...
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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329118