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Are computer skills the new basic skills? : The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003

skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but … that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills. …

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Variable Pay Systems : Collective Bargaining and Wage Inequality in Six Different European Countries

Garcia-Hernandez, Rosa - 2016

Variable Pay Systems or Pay for performance suppose variable additional components to regular wages connected, for …

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Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2021

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An index of inter-industry wage inequality : trends, comparisons, and robustness

Scholl, Nathalie - 2017

This paper introduces a newly constructed Theil index of between-sectoral manufacturing wage inequality and empirically tests whether the measure can serve as a basis for more general statements about the evolution of broader concepts of inequality, as argued by the authors of the University of...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage distribution during the 1980s in the U.S. and since the mid 1990s in Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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The wage impact of undocumented workers

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Rios-Avila, … - 2012

Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...

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Is unemployment really scarring? : effects of unemployment experiences on wages

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000

. The study could not find any significant effects of unemployment duration on subsequent wages in addition to the incidence …

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Hourly Versus Salaried Payment and Decisions About Trading Off Time and Money Over Time

DeVoe, Sanford E. - 2010

association between hourly wages and a desire to exchange leisure time for more money. This relationship holds even when a fixed …

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