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Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
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-skill occupations worsens the bargaining position of unions, which crucially depends on the occupational structure inside a firm. This …
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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This paper addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different …
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Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by … wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased, some contracts maintained relative wage differentials constant, some … maintained absolute differences in wages constant, others combined these two patterns, and some did not reveal an obvious pattern …
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. During the second period, there was more scope for firm-specific factors to affect wages. We find a remarkable compression of … wages across the distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wage growth was quite uniform across the …
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What explains cross-national variation in wage inequality? Research in comparative political economy stresses the importance of the welfare state and wage coordination in reducing not only disposable income inequality but also gross earnings inequality. However, the cross-national variation in...
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access applicants' salary histories while bargaining over wages, they can take advantage of past inequities, perpetuating … SHBs, employers posted wages more often and increased pay for job changers by about 5%, with larger increases for women (8 …
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The distribution of income lies at the intersection of states and markets, both influencing and responding to government policy. Reflecting this reality, increasing research focuses on the political origins of inequality in the U.S. However, the literature largely assumes — rather than tests...
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