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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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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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This paper studies the long term consequences on workers' labour earnings of the credit crunch induced by the 2007 …-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine … also high-type (and therefore more expensive) workers, even though wages do react to the slack. All in all, our results …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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Using the National Compensation Survey between 2004-2017, we document three stylized facts and quantify cyclical heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. First, there is substantial dispersion in the incidence of performance pay, even within the same occupation; hourly...
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The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
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This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between … 1999 and 2019. By using Labour Force Survey microdata, I examine the cyclicality of job-finding and job-separation rates ….85% drop in real wages for natives and immigrants, respectively. However, these differences only occur among low-tenure workers …
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This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We...
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labour scarcity by increasing wages to attract workers who to some extent can adjust their mobility behaviour accordingly. We …Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill … shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong …
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This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college … wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap … in training participation between high- and low-skill workers is smaller within these firms. To understand the aggregate …
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