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This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
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The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent …
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We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
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Occupational titles may purposely misdirect observers from actual job tasks to reduce costs from mandatory benefits. Using the universe of OSHA accident audits, 1990-2009, we estimate the wage differentials paid for risk incurred performing tasks outside of occupation-associated duties. We...
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I study when a firm prefers to be transparent about pay using a simple multidimensional signaling model. Pay transparency within the firm means that a worker can learn about his own worker-firm match from another worker's pay. This can either encourage or discourage workers-which affects...
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Important differences in labor market characteristics suggest that men and women physicians may be viewed as imperfect substitutes in the labor market. Concerns about efficiency and cost-cutting, which have led to the adoption of managed care practices, may have (unintentionally) favored female...
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robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender. I show that biased referrals are predominantly … driven by physicians' decisions rather than by endogenous sorting of physicians or patients. Because most referring doctors … are male, the net impact of same-gender bias by both male and female doctors generates lower demand for female relative to …
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referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily … sorting of physicians or patients or by gender differences in the labor supply. As 75% of doctors are men, estimates suggest …
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health system. Unionisation of these doctors is 90 percent, and their union’s MECA specifies their pay rates, which should … salary steps than equally experienced female specialists, or males disproportionately receiving additional payments beyond …
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referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily … sorting of physicians or patients or by gender differences in the labor supply. As 75% of doctors are men, estimates suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776039