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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? A study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America's six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518285
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466614
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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure
Heywood, John S. - 2018
This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911172
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The Effect of Salary History Bans on Wages, Learning, and the Gender Pay Gap
Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2021
A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages themselves are both necessary to motivate optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247591
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The impact of employment protection on the industrial wage structure
Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, William S.; … - 2018
This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906083
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130547
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How much do workers actually value working from home?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
inequality across education levels. Finally, valuations meaningfully interact with commuting distance and WFH reduces (but does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013445443
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Effects on Wage and Employment after Implementation of Social Security Norms in the Agricultural Labour Market
Kundu, Amit - 2009
Government of India wants to implement 'Conditions of Work and Livelihood Promotion Bill' for the agricultural workers who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214265
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219073