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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031
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Federal minimum wage hikes do reduce teenage employment : the time series effects of minimum wages in the US revisited
Bazen, Stephen; Marimoutou, Vêlayoudom - 2016
In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455868
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Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment : The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited
Bazen, Stephen - 2016
In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993959
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Wage determination in social occupations : the role of individual social capital
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Rupasingha, Anil - 2016
We make use of predicted social and civic activities (social capital) to account for selection into "social" occupations. Individual selection accounts for more than the total difference in wages observed between social and nonsocial occupations. The role that individual social capital plays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558187
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Industries, mega firms, and increasing inequality
Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - 2022
Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...
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Does background matter? : the transmission of human capital from a planned to a market economy
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999
We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577039
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Rising wage dispersion between white-collar and blue-collar workers and market concentration : the case of the USA, 1966-2011
Dögüs, Ilhan - 2017
In this paper, I address the simple question "What types of employees have been steadily paid more by what type of employers?" and I suggest that rising market concentration has a significant structural impact on the wage differentials between white and blue-collar workers. The innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685393
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? : what does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
Alonso Soto, Daniel; Ñopo, Hugo - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732083
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825968