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satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this … contracts, but not of their French counterparts. In France, such rents are found in full-time, rather than part-time jobs. Hence …. However, they do suggest that part-time employment is involuntary to a far greater extent in France than in Great Britain. …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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minimum wages, employment protection, and collective bargaining widely applied. Results indicate that both countries became …
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rather than negative. The latter finding entails substantial increases in mean wages and reduction in wage inequality …
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business for a longer period of time tend to pay higher wages. Using a unique rich set of linked employer-employee data we … wages for workers with the same broadly defined degree of formal qualification. This firm age differential vanishes after …
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The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the...
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We investigate various stylized facts on wage growth, labor mobility and firm size, to date unexplored in Italy. Using a wage decomposition that allows to separate individual premiums from firm-effects, we ascertain: (1) whether movers are better off than stayers; (2) whether firm size affects...
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standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive model with multiple individual fixed effects is …
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The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population surveys. While data from the 1940...
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effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find 12-28 percent effects on average wages. The wage effect mostly reverses …
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