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Men's labor income is on average higher than that of women practically everywhere. This gender pay gap can be …, by trying to identify those jobs where the gender of the employee matters most. Using Hungarian individual data from a … percent in linear regressions. Judging by this criterion the majority of occupations have a gender pay gap. Secondly, we …
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We estimate the gender pay gap with the traditional OLS based Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, and with an extension using …
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coefficients in Austria, Hungary, Germany and Sweden for several years and categories; and obtain a mixed picture. Hungary stands …
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The starting point of our research is Piketty (2014) who follows Marx by asserting that rents are merely one of the forms of profits, therefore they do not require separate conceptual analysis and statistical separation. Speaking of the generation of rents (as a distinctly different mechanism...
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-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …
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This paper provides a search theoretic model with endogenous job creation, and homogenous workers and firms. The model introduces bidding costs and allows the current employer to make a counteroffer with probability q when the worker receives an outside offer. In equilibrium, a higher level of...
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This paper examines the development of wage inequality in the context of a Burdett-Mortensen (1998) model that is extended to incorporate worker heterogeneity through skill requirements in the production process. In this environment, wage dispersion is a natural consequence of firms pursuing...
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A large share of workers receives bonus payments besides their base wage. The benefits of flexible wage components in remuneration are twofold: they can incentivize workers and make it easier to adjust wages downward in response to negative shocks. Using data on bonus payments of Hungarian...
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