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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Pay and Promotion for NHS Nurses
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321345
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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The effects of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and wages : evidence from US longitudinal data
Ciccarelli, Nicola - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 1, pp. 89-127
We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269141
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The Effects of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums on Employment and Wages : Evidence from US Longitudinal Data
Ciccarelli, Nicola - 2020
We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101693
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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999
Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...
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The evolution of the early career gender wage gap
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
' skills. Regarding entry wages we find a gap of approximately 25 percent. For the early career, i.e. up to eight years of work …
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Gender differences in entry wages and early career wages
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
differential by the separate analysis of entry wages and early career wages. …
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044406
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The gender pay gap in the Australian private sector : is selection relevant across the wage distribution?
Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen; Nicodemo, Catia - 2012
We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant evidence of a self selection effect for women into full-time employment (or of components of self...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539336