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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022
, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings …
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. And Germany
Bell, Linda A.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of … German earnings, the same extra work pays off more in the US, generating more hours worked. Supporting this inequality …-hours hypothesis, we show that in both countries hours worked is positively related to earnings inequality in cross section …
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The Effects of Childhood Adhd on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2013
While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...
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Wage Gaps vs. Output Gaps : is There a Common Story for All of Europe?
Gordon, Robert J. - 2010
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Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
Gittleman, Maury - 2015
Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing a new topical module to the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992 : A Semiparametric Approach
DiNardo, John E.; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021
inequality from 1979 to 1988. We find also compelling visual and quantitative evidence that the decline in the real value of the … minimum wage explains a substantial proportion of this increase in wage inequality, particularly for women. We conclude that …
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the Us and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2022
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The Us and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany during the 1984-91 period. We find that young, less educated American men and especially women are far less likely to be employed than their German counterparts. Moreover, less...
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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in the UK and the Us Revisited
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade unions in the US and the UK and elsewhere. In both the US and the UK, despite declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other countries, such as Australia, Austria, Brazil,...
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