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Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006

In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these...

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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...

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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter; Wei, … - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility: Results from Survey and Administrative Data

Moffitt, Robert A.; Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hokayem, … - 2022

There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics …. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the …. Using common specifications, measures of volatility, and other treatments of the data, four of the six data series show a …

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Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence´ from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Joergen - 1999

We estimate a Dynamic Programming model of the decision between continuing schooling or entering the labor market using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY). The model, set in an expected utility framework (with a power utility function), fits data on both schooling attainments...

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On the Cyclicality and Stability of Real Earnings

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R. - 1999

We show in this paper that important insights into the cyclical behaviour of wages can be gained by dividing (real) average hourly earnings into their straight-time hourly wage and overtime components. Our motivation is based on the idea of employment-contingent contracts. BLS published and...

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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...

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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...

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