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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: productivity and investments are positively … correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …
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Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: productivity and investments are positively … correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …
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investments in railways, faster structural change, and higher firm productivity. We also find that the change of political power … investments in labor-saving technologies in areas were landowners have more political power. We also provide evidence that many …
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With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an …' propensity to hire the outof-work, by lowering the costs of low-skill labour, reducing associated administrative and regulatory …
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). Optimal contracts for risk neutral agents not only reward good investments but also punishes bad investments. Such contracts …
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This paper studies the long term consequences on workers' labour earnings of the credit crunch induced by the 2007 …-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine … also high-type (and therefore more expensive) workers, even though wages do react to the slack. All in all, our results …
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stepwise increase in minimum wages enforced by new labour-market legislation. …This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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