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. …