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The effect of wages on job vacancy duration : evidence from a spatial discontinuity
Carter, Charles; Delaney, Judith; Papps, Kerry L. - 2024
We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how … wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can …
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The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses' labour supply in Great Britain
Crawford, Rowena; Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2015
in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the …
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The labour supply of mothers
Turon, Hélène - 2022
This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Corporate Stakeholders and CEO-Worker Pay Gap : Evidence From CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure
Cheng, Mei; Zhang, Yuan - 2023
Based on the recent SEC-mandated disclosures of CEO-worker pay ratios, we find that firms significantly decrease (increase) their CEO-worker pay ratios when their prior pay ratios are high (low) relative to peers. More importantly, the decrease in pay ratio among high pay ratio firms is...
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
Die Studie analysiert die Determinanten der Inzidenz, des Umfangs und der Kompensation von Überstunden in Westdeutschland und Großbritannien in den Jahren 1991 bis 1998. Ist die Inzidenz von Überstunden in beiden Ländern noch durchaus vergleichbar, so arbeiten britische Arbeitnehmer im...
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Alternative Routes to Monetary Integration in the British Economic and Political Debate (1989-91)
Masini, Fabio - 2009
Contrary to what happened in the Seventies, when the parallel currency approach to monetary integration in Europe turned out to be the winning strategy to assist the political decision by Germany and France to revitalize an agonizing integration process, a similar proposal officially made by the...
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George Gunton's divergent view on the origin of the great divergence : the dynamics of social wants in England and India
Sivramkrishna, Sashi - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54
social wants that become the precondition for capital investment and growth in real wages. While social wants in the West and … static in the East, particularly India, so that standards of living and consequently real wages too did not increase. This …
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Introduction: international knowledge transfer and circulation within the brewing industry
Weiß, Jana; Bodden, Nancy - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 65 (2024) 1, pp. 7-16
This special issue follows our conference, which was held in October 2021 and attended by beer historians and sociologists from the U.S., Europe and Australia. By taking beer as a lens to approach questions of knowledge transfer and circulation, we seek to refine our historical understanding of...
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