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The effects of sick-leaves on erarnings
Markussen, Simen - 2009
This paper assesses the causal effect of sick-leaves on subsequent earnings using an administrative dataset for Norway linking individual earnings, sick-leave records and primary care physicians. The leniency of a worker's physician - certifying sickness absence - is used as instrument for...
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Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market
Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2021
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315262
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Stability of college rankings: A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data
Gartell, Marie - 2009
The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be …. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the ranking of colleges dependent on the age of the college, i.e. old versus … new colleges. Although ranking by earnings equations provide some information about the relation to earnings, endogeneity …
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Stability of college rankings : a study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data
Gartell, Marie - 2009
The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be …. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the ranking of colleges dependent on the age of the college, i.e. old versus … new colleges. Although ranking by earnings equations provide some information about the relation to earnings, endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874153
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A Pay Scale of Their Own : Gender Differences in Performance Pay
Sockin, Jason - 2020
Using data from Glassdoor, we find sizable gender gaps in the United States within occupations and employers in the magnitude (21%) and incidence (6.3 percentage points) of performance pay. These substantial gender gaps contribute to persistent disparities in total income, are directly related...
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An Intra-Firm Perspective on Wage Profiles and Employmentof Older Workers with Special Reference to Human Capitaland Deferred Compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009
Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do nothire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants areexplored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective,such adjustments might lead to adverse incentive...
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An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers with special reference to human capital and deferred compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do not hire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants are explored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective, such adjustments might lead to adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003802942
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Working Long Hours and Career Wage Growth
Gicheva, Dora - 2011
This study establishes empirically a nonlinear relationship between hours worked per week and hourly wage growth: for workers who put in 48 hours per week or more, working 5 extra hours per week increases annual wage growth by about 1 percent. The average effect is zero when hours are below 48....
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A question of gender? : how promotions affect earnings
Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Zucco, Aline - 2020
increase due to a promotion in Germany. Moreover, we are the first to analyze differences in the gender gap across promotions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422240
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Temporal Flexibility, Breaks at Work, and the Motherhood Wage Gap
Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; … - 2022
We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...
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