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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages
Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023
model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373594
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398868
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
This paper explores secular changes in women's pay relative to men's pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319372
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012016
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A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain
Bryson, Alex; Joshi, Heather; Wielgoszewska, Bożena; … - 2020
-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227823
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The effects of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and wages : evidence from US longitudinal data
Ciccarelli, Nicola - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 1, pp. 89-127
We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269141
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The Effects of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums on Employment and Wages : Evidence from US Longitudinal Data
Ciccarelli, Nicola - 2020
We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101693
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The Long and Short of It : Maternity Leave Coverage and Women?s Labor Market Outcomes
Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - 2004
We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women?s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261961
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272301