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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States
Gosling, Amanda - 2001
This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470305
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D. - 1997
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …
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The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy : Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
Cook, Cody - 2018
document a roughly 7% gender earnings gap amongst drivers. We completely explain this gap and show that it can be entirely … discrimination. Our results suggest that there is no reason to expect the "gig" economy to close gender differences. Even in the … gender-based differences in preferences and constraints can sustain a gender pay gap …
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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have experienced relatively larger increases in cost of living, because they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464279
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Explaining Rising Income and wage Inequality Among the College Educated
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1999
The incomes and wages of college-educated Americans have become significantly more dispersed since 1970. This paper attempts to decompose this growing dispersion into three possible sources of growth. The first source, or extensive margin,' is the increasing demographic diversity of people who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471938
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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...
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Where the boys aren't : Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education
Jacob, Brian A. - 2002
some gender differences in the determinants of college attendance. I find that higher non-cognitive skills and college … premiums among women account for nearly 90 percent of the gender gap in higher education. Interestingly, non-cognitive factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469750
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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that "competitive …" individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in taste for competition … explain around 10% of the overall gender gap. We also find that competitive individuals are more likely to work in high …
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