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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages
Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023
model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373594
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398868
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
This paper explores secular changes in women's pay relative to men's pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319372
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012016
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A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain
Bryson, Alex; Joshi, Heather; Wielgoszewska, Bożena; … - 2020
-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227823
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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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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes : postponed childbearing increases women's labor market attachement but may reduce overall fertility
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2015
The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429465
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian - 2017
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960276