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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125907
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Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap
Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2020
on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after … receiving permanent status, earnings of immigrants rise relative to those of natives. Compositional effects due to selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213959
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Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets
Petrongolo, Barbara; Ronchi, Maddalena - 2020
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243240
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Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets
Petrongolo, Barbara; Ronchi, Maddalena - 2020
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201739
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452214
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Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap
Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228558
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023
newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346439
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Assortative matching or exclusionary hiring? : the impact of firm policies on racial wage differences in Brazil
Gerard, François; Lagos, Lorenzo; Severnini, Edson R.; … - 2018
A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites are less likely to work at establishments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946816
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Assortative matching or exclusionary hiring? : the impact of firm policies on racial wage differences in Brazil
Gerard, François; Lagos, Lorenzo; Severnini, Edson R.; … - Columbia University / Department of Economics - 2018
A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites are less likely to work at establishments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147304
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How local are labor markets? : evidence from a spatial job search model
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523536