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Wage structure and unionization in the US construction sector

Bilginsoy, Cihan - 2009

This paper estimates the union effects on the wage gap and dispersion in two pooled samples of construction craftworkers (CPS 1983-88 and 2000-05) using decomposition analysis and kernel density estimation. It shows that despite the decline in the adjusted union wage gap declined over time, the...

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Disability-based labour market inequalities

Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024

Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002

Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s; workers with low relative earnings in the beginning of the...

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Performance pay across Europe: Drivers of the increase and the link with wage inequality

Zwysen, Wouter - 2021

This paper shows that the use of performance pay schemes has risen substantially across Europe from fewer than one-fifth in 2000 up to one-third in 2015, using data from the European Working Conditions Survey and the Structure of Earnings Survey enriched with external contextual data. This...

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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...

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Wage inequality in Europe: The institutional and economic factors supporting workers

Zwysen, Wouter - 2024

Much of the literature on wage inequality describes increases in wage inequality over time driven by seemingly unstoppable forces of technological change and globalisation, widening the gaps between workers and disadvantaging the lower paid. At the same time institutional protection has...

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Swimming With the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap

Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …

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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective

Ñopo, Hugo - 2006

This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the … suggest that, besides the high educational attainment of females, there are noticeable gender wage gaps in Chile favoring …

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Do Austrian Men and Women Become more Equal? At Least in Terms of Labor Supply!

Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...

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