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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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The Labor Market Effects of Expanding Overtime Coverage
Quach, Simon - 2020
This paper studies the employment and income effects of a federal proposal in 2016 to expand overtime coverage to additionally cover salaried workers earning between $455 and $913 per week ($23,660 and $47,476 per annum). Although the policy was unexpectedly nullified a week before its proposed...
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the …-time hourly wages adjust to neutralize the statutory overtime premium. …
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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2006
the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. In an analysis that controls for workweek trends within … equilibrium in which straight-time hourly wages adjust to neutralize the statutory overtime premium …
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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021
effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the …-time hourly wages adjust to neutralize the statutory overtime premium …
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Wages, employment and tenure of temporarily subsidized workers : does the industry matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we com-pare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in an-other industry instead. However, we … find significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal …
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Wages, employment and tenure of temporarily subsidized workers ; does the industry matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to … work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …
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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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