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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …
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Does it pay to move? Returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates
Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016
Decisions taken at the start of one's career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to stay...
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Estimates of the Non-accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for Hungary
Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2015
revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages … perspective, because the vast majority of estimates in the literature use wages to provide an estimate of the unemployment gap …. Therefore, an indicator which does not use wages at all to estimate the unemployment gap performs the best in forecasting wage …
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Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada
Fortin, Bernard; Ragued, Safa - 2016
-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are differently influenced by the reasons behind these discontinuities. We analyse … instruments. Conditional on the levels of schooling and experience, we find a positive effect on wages of temporary schooling …
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Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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Do Women Ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Valletta, Robert G. - 2016
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...
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Missing wages: How to test for biased estimates in wage functions?
Fertig, Michael; Görlitz, Katja - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 269-271
This paper investigates how to test for nonresponse selection bias in wage functions induced by missing income information. We suggest an “easy-to-implement” approach which requires information on interviewer IDs and the interview date rather than hard-to-get interviewer characteristics.
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?
Vignoles, Anna - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in high demand and that there is a relative scarcity. Policymakers …
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Low-wage employment
Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of low-paid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...
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