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capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …
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This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …-to-job flows reallocate workers from low productivity to high productivity firms and often this pattern is tested assuming that … employment size, wage or productivity show different responses of employment growth rates to business cycles. The relationship …
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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...
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Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export …, workforce composition, wages per employee, productivity, and domestic sales. While the current growth rate of export performance …
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We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...
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This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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The proportion of multiple jobholders (moonlighters) is negatively correlated with productivity (wages) in cross … seemingly contradictory facts. An income effect explains the negative correlation with productivity while a comparative advantage … data. There are three exogenous driving forces: productivity, number of children and the proportion of skilled workers. The …
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