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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931786
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Market power, dismissal threat and rent sharing: the role of insider and outsider forces in wage bargaining
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - 2006
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor … power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal acts to weaken insiders' bargaining … power and, consequently, to restrain their wage claims. Moreover, the results also showed that real wages in Portugal are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267516
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Paying more than necessary? The wage cushion in Germany
Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269109
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Does the sector experience affect the pay gap for temporary agency workers?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2011
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this sector or who are employed for a substantial length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278493
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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531711
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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268876
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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany
Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039648
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Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor … power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal acts to weaken insiders’ bargaining … power and, consequently, to restrain their wage claims. Moreover, the results also showed that real wages in Portugal are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763848
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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this sector or who are employed for a substantial length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150629
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Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium
Bloom, David E.; Prettner, Klaus; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - 2024
How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567540