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Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
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According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly between 1993 and 2003 and has been stagnating at a high level since 2008. As this Weekly Report shows, the increase is not being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but...
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Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
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compression hypothesis hold? Based on the PIAAC survey of adult skills for seventeen OECD countries, this paper seeks to shed …
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Using a linked employer-employee dataset, we present new evidence on the role of firms in British wage inequality trends over the past two decades. The extent of differences between firms in the average wages they paid did not drive these trends. Between 1996 and 2005, greater wage variance...
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This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage …, and skill differences explain part of the differences in wage dispersion. However, even when accounted for skills, some … of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey of adult skills for core OECD countries, this paper cannot confirm the skill …
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Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we provide a comprehensive analysis of the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons...
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Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we provide a comprehensive analysis of the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons...
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average earnings of workers in occupations for which their jobs or tasks are top ranked among mobile jobs platforms postings …
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