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We propose an empirical analysis of testing the relationship between gender wage gap and economic growth. The study … Winter-Ebmer, 2011). Our main findings indicate that gender wage gap for high, medium and low-skilled workers is negatively …
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The paper uses firm-level data to examine gender wage and productivity gaps in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector for … for factors affecting average wages. Our findings show significant gender wage and productivity gaps and the segregation …-level indicate no significant difference between the gender wage and productivity gaps. As such, further investigation into the …
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impact of international trade on the gender wage gap could be positive or negative depending on the initial size of Becker …
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This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …
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After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …
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strong evidence that all three factors help narrow the gender gap in industry wage premia. Other characteristics that we have … finding is that Affirmation Action, employment growth, and profitability each leads to a narrowing of the gender gap in … measure to reduce the gender wage gap in the 1980s. The difference in results is likely attributable to the fact that the …
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