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Skill formation, employment discrimination, and wage inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China
Wang, Jun; Liao, Chengjuan; Wan, Xuan; Song, Hui - 2021
discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor market. Based on data from the 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPSs … industries. We also find employment discrimination resulting from skill differences in state-owned and non-state-owned sectors. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627041
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … which a sharp increase in discrimination induced mass exit by one ethnic group and mass skill investment by the same group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665761
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670962
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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India
Gupta, Isha - 2022
social discrimination is also found to be a significant contributor to the gaps in cognitive outcomes and parental investment … across social groups. While parents' perceived social discrimination is associated with lower parental investment throughout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433674
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women Over the Lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK- BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106671
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2020
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS. Based on a lifecycle model and using tax and welfare bene t reforms as a source of exogenous variation we evaluate the role of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094174
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Manpower constraints and corporate policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the subsequent differential fluxes of Eastern immigrants across Western states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313778