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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2007
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and - since skill … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072039
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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288539
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Efficiency wages : variants and implications
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016
Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may engender phenomena like over-education, discrimination,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438256
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"Soft" skills, "hard" skills, and the black/white earnings gap
Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor); Wei, Xiangdong (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189634
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Soft Skills and Their Wage Returns : Overview of Empirical Literature
Balcar, Jiří - 2014
Psychological traits, attitudes and soft skills represent factors whose effect on an individual's wages has begun to be examined recently. Today, there is an extensive empirical body on wage returns to the first two factors, but still a relatively small one on wage returns to soft skills, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048254
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016363
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Skill formation, employment discrimination, and wage inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China
Wang, Jun; Liao, Chengjuan; Wan, Xuan; Song, Hui - 2021
This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627041
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879761
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815700
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'Soft' Skills, 'Hard' Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap
Fan, C. Simon; Wei, Xiangdong; Zhang, Junsen - 2021
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively soft/hard skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318213