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For several years, the Russian system of higher education had been undergoing massive transformations related to the enhancement of the global competitiveness of the national academic sector. The introduction of research-oriented universities and the transition to incentive contracts are the...
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importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms …' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies for 772 German firms, we document that the majority of firms are willing to … engage in individual wage bargaining. Labor market factors predict firms' strategies better than firm characteristics. Survey …
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interruptions. Given the importance of wage expectations for labor market decisions, household bargaining, and wage setting, our …
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interruptions. Given the importance of wage expectations for labor market decisions, household bargaining, and wage setting, our …
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bargaining, and wage setting, our results provide an explanation for persistent gender inequalities. …
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bargaining, and wage setting, our results provide an explanation for persistent gender inequalities. …
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Professional female athletes have long and bitterly complained that their compensation seriously lags behind that awarded to their male counterparts, and that this situation is unjust. The problem with this argument is that it is based on the labor theory of value, a long-discredited theory that...
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We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in fulltime work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women only at strictly lower wages than men. The model...
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This study provides the first analysis of Japan's 2018 Work Style Reform (WSR) and its effects on firms and workers, using payroll and survey data in a difference-in-difference design. We find that the reform's introduction of an overtime cap reduces average monthly overtime hours by 5 hours...
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Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings. In M. Fix,...
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