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Within-establishment wage inequality and satisfaction
Poggi, Ambra - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence on the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects …-being and inequality. Her results are robust to different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236852
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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Economic Shutdown and Commercial Rent in Chapter 11
Colligan, George - 2021
This Comment examines Judge Papalia’s decision to suspend proceedings in the Chapter 11 corporate bankruptcy case In re Modell’s Sporting Goods, Inc. Controversially, this decision effectively postponed Modell’s commercial rent obligations during the COVID-19 economic shutdown. The Comment...
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Regulating the Human Supply Chain
Gordon, Jennifer - 2017
Over the past decade, the United States has experienced a stunning 65% decline in undocumented immigration. While politicians seem unaware of this change, firms that once relied on local undocumented workers as a low-wage labor force feel it acutely. Such companies have increasingly applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963346
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Non-wage job values and implications for inequality
Lehmann, Tobias - 2023
I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011 … the distribution of job value among workers and find a positive correlation between wage and non-wage value. Inequality in … job value is thus considerably greater than wage inequality, reflected in the standard deviation of job value being more …
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More or Less Fair? FLSA Overtime Law and Workers' Preferences Regarding Reduced Work Time and Comp Time versus Pay
Golden, Lonnie - 2008
This paper addresses the on-going controversy regarding whether to allow private sector employers to substitute compensatory (comp) time for premium pay for workers' overtime work hours. It employs data from a unique survey that actually asked over 800 workers their preference for pay vs. future...
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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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Deunionization and job polarization : a macroeconomic model analysis for a small open economy
Brasch, Thomas von; Gjelsvik, Marit Linnea; Sparrman, … - In: Economic systems research : journal of the … 30 (2018) 3, pp. 380-399
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Intersectionality and Discrimination : An Examination of the U.S. Labor Market
White, Roger - 2023
examine a specific facet of inequality – namely, the presence and magnitude of wage discrimination in the U.S. labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013555442
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Wage incentive profiles in dual labor markets
Di Cintio, Marco; Grassi, Emanuele - 2014
This paper formalizes the use of flexible labor contracts in an efficiency wage framework and derives market dualism as an endogenous outcome. By allowing temporary contracts to be either renewed or converted into permanent contracts, new theoretical insights emerge both on the equilibrium wage...
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