Showing 1 - 10 of 1,111
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786921
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737504
In this article, we examine structural changes in minimum wage and low wage labor following the introduction and first increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the impact that workers face earning gross hourly wages below the minimum-wage or low-wage thresholds are identified by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514111
This paper argues that employers should adopt practices that provide employees with opportunities to exercise voice. Time and time again, we see corporate scandals that could have been avoided if employees were encouraged to speak up when they saw problems in the workplace. Recent scandals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960071
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701403
This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906083
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130547
for this inequality in the law governing their relationship. We can best understand this inequality in terms of status … the moral problem raised by inequality in the employment relation, and thus, it has failed to inspire any meaningful … attempt to address that inequality. By contrast, a status-based approach would motivate several common sense doctrinal changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209967
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486699