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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …
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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …
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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - 2002
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert - 2005
in the racial unemployment gap vary systematically over the business cycle in a manner consistent with discrimination … in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 …
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Coping with low pay: cognitive dissonance and persistent disparate earnings profiles
Watson, Duncan; Webb, Robert; Birdi, Alvin - 2005
The paper focuses on an employee’s perception of his or her own labour market outcome. It proposes that the basic earnings function, by adopting an approach that ignores perception effects, is likely to result in biased results that will fail to understand the complexities of the wage...
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Are there pecuniary compensations for working conditions in the UK?: SKOPE Research Paper No. 59, October 2005
Fernández, Rosa M.; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2005
This paper explores the nature of inter-industry wage differentials that are not explained by personal characteristics. We document the presence and persistence of a significant contribution of industry affiliation to wage dispersion in the UK. Competing theoretical explanations for this finding...
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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions
De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006
The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the...
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Earnings - tenure profiles in the U.K. public and private sectors
Coleman, James S. - 1994
The thesis examines the effect of tenure on earnings in the British public and private sectors. The characteristic differences between the labour markets associated with the two sectors are examined. Several theories underlying the earnings-tenureeffect are then assessed for their suitability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466013
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Employment and remuneration of Irish chartered accountants : evidence of gender differences
Brennan, Niamh; Nolan, Patrick - 1998
Literature on gender based salary differentials has proliferated in recent years but there have been few studies on salary differentials in the accounting profession. This paper examines factors influencing remuneration of Irish chartered accountants. Responses to the Leinster Society of...
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Public sector pay gap in France : new evidence using panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Melly, Blaise - 2008
We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean andat different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account forunobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departingfrom usual practice, allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475711