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In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...
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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …) ; truckload (TL) ; regulation ; deregulation ; union premium …
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) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease … in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
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This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality … in the industry as a whole, but this masks conflicting changes within the compensation structure. Manager wages fell …
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Auf der Basis der Deutschen Beschäftigtenhistorik untersuchen wir die Konjunkturabhängigkeit von Löhnen auf aggregierter und regionaler Ebene. Dabei unterscheiden wir zwischen Betriebswechslern und Beschäftigten, die im selben Betrieb bleiben. Wir finden, dass die Reaktion der Löhne auf...
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the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the …
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during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …
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Focusing in the United States, this paper addresses the following question: can the increase of top managers' salaries be counted as a source of the recent increase in income inequality? The paper shows that, between 1979 and 2015, the average annual wage for the bottom 90 percent of wage...
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-2013 in the USA. The results show that the responses of share of pension funds within US-household wealth to one-unit shock in …
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