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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career : Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
Belley, Philippe - 2015
links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career : Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
Belley, Philippe - 2015
links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036445
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Are Labor Market Indicators Telling the Truth? Role of Measurement Error in the U.S. Current Population Survey
Shibata, Ippei - 2019
Labor market indicators are critical for policymakers, but measurement error in labor force survey data is known to be substantial. In this paper, I quantify the implications of classification errors in the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), in which respondents misreport their true labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889152
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New Stylized Facts on Occupational Employment and Their Implications : Evidence from Consistent Employment Data
Shim, Myungkyu - 2016
The business cycle properties of occupational employment have not yet been extensively explored because of inconsistencies in the aggregate employment series by occupation. Using consistent aggregate hours data constructed through the method of “conversion factors,” which was developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006112
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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa
Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019
Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012406
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The independent contractor workforce : new evidence on its size and composition and ways to improve its measurement in household surveys
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - 2023
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233013
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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247917
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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - 2023
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260451
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Predicting Benchmarked US State Employment Data in Realtime
Brave, Scott A.; Gascon, Charles S.; Kluender, William; … - 2021
US payroll employment data come from a survey and are subject to revisions. While revisions are generally small at the national level, they can be large enough at the state level to alter assessments of current economic conditions. Users must therefore exercise caution in interpreting state...
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The effect of emigration on the Hungarian labour market
Bodnár, Katalin; Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2014
In our analysis, we examine the effects of emigration from Hungary on the labour market and its other economic implications. Since 2008 the number of emigrants has been rising significantly faster than the previous trend, and thus it is important to assess the possible consequences of higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437180