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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2014
household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2013
wages than fairly paid individuals with identical characteristics. -- Fairness ; Wages … household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid … individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715233
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My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2013
household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid … individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound … wages than fairly paid individuals with identical characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160353
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In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
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Better safe than sorry? : the effects of income risk, unemployment risk and the interaction of these risks on wages
Nagl, Wolfgang - 2013
We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …
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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016
We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...
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Retirement-Related Economic Damages Calculations and the Fair Calculations in Civil Damages Act of 2016
Cahill, Kevin E. - 2017
How would the Fair Calculations in Civil Damages Act of 2016 (the “Act”) impact economic damages calculations related to the retirement process? The Act covers discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or actual or perceived sexual orientation. This paper focuses on gender...
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Damages to a Child and the Fair Calculations Act : A Case Study
Spizman, Lawrence M. - 2017
The Fair Calculations Act introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R.6417) and Senate (S.3489) seeks to prohibit courts from using race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or actual or perceived sexual orientation in awarding damages to plaintiffs in civil actions. The following case study...
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The Gender Wage Gap and the Fair Calculations Act
Even, William E. - 2017
If enacted as a law, the Fair Calculations Act would require forensic economists to ignore an injured party's gender when forecasting the loss in future earnings. We discuss how this would affect the size of awards for men and women, and some of the issues that would arise if the law is enacted....
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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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