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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023

associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill

Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2012

We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector...

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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill. Extended version

Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2015

We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one...

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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies

Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012

wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we make use of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions inquiry released in 2009. The premium is found to be higher at the right tail of the distribution of wages, suggesting …

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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience …

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...

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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru

Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024

In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...

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Bad taste : gender discrimination in the consumer credit market

Montoya, Ana María; Parrado, Eric; Solis, Alex; … - 2020

We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who then randomly submitted them to a representative sample of loan-officers from Chilean banks. We find that loan requests submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved,...

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