A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper … the gender pay gap and the biases cited by proponents of bans: some firms consistently but unconsciously under … and wage gap persists. In contrast, bans may reduce the gender wage gap, but do so at the expense of high-performing women …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in …

Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks …. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the … Participation. The first result is that the variance of match-level shocks is large, and the consequent value of job mobility is …

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 … sources of data, including household surveys, firm surveys, and administrative data, and it can be hard to keep up with all of …

exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …