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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Are part-time workers less productive and underpaid? : the impact of part-time workers on firms' productivity is unclear, and lower wages depend mainly on occupation and sector
Garnero, Andrea - 2016
About one in five workers across OECD countries is employed part-time, and the share has been steadily increasing since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 2007. Part-time options play an important economic role by providing more flexible working arrangements for both workers...
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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru
Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024
In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
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Productivity or discrimination? : an economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market
Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Nordin, Martin - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 6, pp. 589-601
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Technology, labor characteristics and wage-productivity gaps
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - 2003
negative if the model is estimated with fixed plant effects. – Productivity ; wages ; education ; age ; gender wage gap … ; wages ; education ; age ; gender wage gap ; linked employeremployee data …
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Of Age, Sex, and Money : Insights from Corporate Officer Compensation on the Wage Inequality between Genders
Newton, David - 2014
This paper shows that the gender and age of the wage-setter are crucial determinants of the disparity in wages between … analysis because officer wages are set by chief executive officers. We show that CEOs pay officers of the opposing gender less … than officers of their own gender, even when controlling for job characteristics. Older and male CEOs exhibit the greatest …
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Gender, race, and class in an intersectional framework : occupations and wages in the United States
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - In: Feminist economics 30 (2024) 1, pp. 40-69
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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