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Wage inequality and labor rights violations
Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021
Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431727
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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020
Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions … quality and how it contributes to overall inequality. We use a combination of systematic legal violations data from federal … violations are regressive: they deepen wage inequality by increasing inequality in job quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825709
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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Marinescu, Ioana Elena; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021
Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246035
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Within-establishment wage inequality and satisfaction
Poggi, Ambra - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence on the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects …-being and inequality. Her results are robust to different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236852
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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What really happened to British inequality in the early 20th century? : evidence from national household expenditure surveys 1890-1961
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017
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
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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What does the German minimum wage do? : the impact of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on the composition of low- and minimum-wage labour
Dütsch, Matthias; Altun, Orkun; Grundmann, Luisa; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 3/4, pp. 355-396
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...
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Beneath the surface : the decline in gender injury gap
Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - 2013
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...
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