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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017

outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …

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Unequal expectations : gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Combating Inequality : The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities

Pettinicchio, David - 2020

weekly earnings by 36% for people with self-care and independent living-related disabilities. Because union membership … increases disabled workers' weekly earnings by more than double the increase experienced by people without disabilities, it … brings unionized disabled workers closer to overall average earnings with important implications for inequality. Unionized …

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Gender wage discrimination by distribution of income in Mexico, 2005-2020

Mendoza González, Miguel Ángel - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-20

This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this end, a number of variables is selected to reflect workers' human capital, household circumstances and workplace characteristics; then, a novel non-parametric method decomposes...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26

This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often...

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - 2015

This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...

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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms

Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...

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Firms' wage structures, workers' fairness perceptions, job satisfaction and turnover intentions : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019

The paper uses novel data for Germany linking worker and establishment surveys with administrative social security data for all workers in the surveyed establishments. From these data, four variables are generated that describe a firm's wage structure and the positions of workers within it: (a)...

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