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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch

Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...

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

Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - 1999

's relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was …

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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - 2006

In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...

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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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Discrimination in Latin America: An elephant in the room?

Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of … discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination … discriminatory practices in the region. This puzzle, where individuals perceive discrimination is in the air, but few act …

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The Public Sector Premium and the Gender Gap in Latin America: Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s

Panizza, Ugo - 2000

This paper exploits a rich collection of household surveys to investigate the wage differential between the public and private sectors in 17 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The paper also studies how the sector of employment affects the gender wage gap. The paper finds very...

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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 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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