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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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Wage Dispersion between and within Plants : Sweden 1985-2000
Nordstrom Skans, Oskar - 2010
. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far …
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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2022
centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … identify the rise and fall of centralized wage-setting arrangements as a major factor in the evolution of Sweden's industry … accounted for about 40 percent of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized …
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...
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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010
Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...
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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
There has been a significant correlation between United States inward foreign direct investment and the United States real exchange rate since the 1970s. Two alternative reasons for this relationship are that the real exchange rate affects the relative cost of labor and that the real exchange...
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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions
Cotton, Christopher - 2010
Using data from multiple-period math competitions, we show that males outperform females of similar ability during the first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that...
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Inequality at Work : The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
Card, David - 2010
We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137764
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Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s : Gender Differences in Trends
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138079
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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986
Davis, Stephen J. - 2010
This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains...
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