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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 … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …
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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024
This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...
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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024
This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450583
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Equal treatment for highly qualified labour migrants
Herzfeld Olsson, Petra - 2019
According to EU-law, third country national labour migrants shall be treated equally to local workers with regard to wages. The aim of this working paper is to clarify whether Swedish law meets this demand with regard to highly qualified labour migrants. The analysis reveals that the combined...
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Is bigger still better? : the decline of the wage premium at large firms
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical evidence supports several explanations for the decline in the size premium. First, there has...
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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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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 …
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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 wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
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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...
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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 wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031