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Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is … with earlier papers which indicate that higher level employees are the primary beneficiaries of higher pay from dispersed … (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in dispersed ownership workplaces. The raw gap of 30 log points falls to 8 …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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According to EU-law, third country national labour migrants shall be treated equally to local workers with regard to wages. The aim of this working paper is to clarify whether Swedish law meets this demand with regard to highly qualified labour migrants. The analysis reveals that the combined...
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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
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The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric … methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay … their contracts. There is little evidence that institutional characteristics influence pay after controlling for institution …
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What has happened to average incomes, inequality, poverty, jobs and pay since 2009 and since 2019? How does the UK …
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This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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coverage. When individuals move into a union covered job they receive a wage mark-up and express enhanced pay satisfaction … covered employees suffer greater costs of re-employment for a given level of unemployment risk, partly due to loss of the …
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