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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Both gay men and...
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degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …
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This investigation of the effect of sexual orientation on earnings employs General Social Survey data from 1989 …-96. Depending largely on the definition of sexual orientation used, earnings are estimated as having been between 14% and 16% lower …/female earnings differentials are rooted in specialization within households and in optimal human capital accumulation decisions …
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this paper we assess its effect on workers' hourly wages and their level of job satisfaction with primary survey data from … selection bias. Our findings show that both hourly wages and job satisfaction are indeed higher on Fairtrade certified … plantations. Factors of increased job satisfaction are likely driven by higher wages, permanent employment contracts, training …
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We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...
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this paper we assess its effect on workers' hourly wages and their level of job satisfaction with primary survey data from … selection bias. Our findings show that both hourly wages and job satisfaction are indeed higher on Fairtrade certified … plantations. Factors of increased job satisfaction are likely driven by higher wages, permanent employment contracts, training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672853
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986771
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