the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …

likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage … the labour market and lower wages. …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …