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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480964
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The Changing Skill Content of Private Sector Union Coverage
Dodini, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Concurrent with the precipitous decline in private sector unionization over the past half century, there has been a shift in the type of work covered by unions. We take a skill-based approach to studying this shift, using data from the Current Population Survey combined with occupation-specific...
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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462668
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Self-Selection and International Migration : New Evidence from Mexico
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462890
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465538
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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio - 2003
employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468847
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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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Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
Beaudry, Paul - 2012
Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States
Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...
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