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This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and … that after increasing between 2002 and 2007, wage growth had significantly slowed down post 2008, and particularly from … industry explain a large share of differences in wage growth between individuals, and these characteristics are more important …
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increases in state, local, and company-specific minimum wages. The once fantastical demand for a $15 an hour wage floor has been …'s strikes are no longer just about McDonald's or Walmart but low-wage jobs generally, from child care, to adjunct teaching, to …, and under longstanding labor law, that means break time. But work changed and the law did not. Today's low-wage service …
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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 … between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular. …
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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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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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This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job … associated with significantly lower wages but there is no wage penalty from overskilling. Furthermore, those who simultaneously … report overeducation and skills dissatisfaction experience a particularly high wage penalty. …
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Worker welfare and employment conditions in the agri-food producing and processing sectors in the global south have become an increasing concern for consumers. Sustainability standards, such as Fairtrade, play an important role in agri-food markets of horticultural produce and may be a tool to...
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work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. Whilst the theory of compensating wage … differentials hypothesizes an inevitable trade-off between higher wages and non-wage benefits, the efficiency wage theory suggests … otherwise. The empirical evidence broadly supports the efficiency wage theory, thus rejecting the compensating wage …
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