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Short- and long-run decompositions of UK wage inequality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2007
This paper focuses on the decomposition of observed increases in UK wage inequality since 1979 into the component … causes of increased inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461192
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Could International Labor Rights Play a Role in U.S. Trade?
Weller, Christian E. - 2009
During its last complete business cycle, from 2001 to 2007, the United States experienced unsustainably high trade deficits. Policymakers are considering a number of measures to avoid a recurrence of such large external imbalances. One such measure is the promotion of better labor rights around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468182
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435345
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441376
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442018
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475647
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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
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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
Bulgaria's transition to a market economy has coincided with a large increase in wage inequality. Given the emphasis on … wage leveling in pre-transition Bulgaria, the rise in wage inequality may be due to managers rewarding more productive … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476678
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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - 1997
Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because workers have different endowments of human capital characteristics or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476695