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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …
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gender equality in terms of remuneration and career advancement …
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This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European … results show that in all countries more than 80% of the gender wage gaps within industries are statistically significant. Yet …, industries having the highest and the lowest gender wage gaps vary substantially across European countries. Finally, results …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state...
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Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts involved metrics that eliminate most of the economically relevant distances among different countries...
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How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements). Relying on a...
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