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Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
Papps, Kerry L. - 2004
was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262116
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India's increasing skill premium: role of demand and supply
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269000
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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Yashiv, Eran - 2004
Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...
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Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms
Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...
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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target?s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...
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Services offshoring and wages: evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
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Wage structure effects of international trade: Evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …
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The assignment of workers to tasks, wage distribution and technical change: a critical review
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2008
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268930
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … for male (female) employees. Despite these changes, the gender wage gap remains almost constant, with some small gains for … contribute to an increase in the gender wage gap. Personal characteristics tend to reduce wage inequality for both, males and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269865
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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009
on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271312