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Peer salaries and employee satisfaction in the workplace

Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - 2012

We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...

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Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal

Cabral Vieira, José A.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portela, Miguel - 2003

This paper aims at quantifying the trend in worker segregation at the establishment level and its impact on wages in … recruitment policies at the establishment level resulted in higher gender segregation in the labour market? What is the impact of … segregation on wages? Is that impact different for men and women? A large linked employer-employee data set is used. Systematic …

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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...

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Crossing the Tracks? : More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004

A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ?advantage? previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the...

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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses

Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 1999

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...

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Daughters and left-wing voting

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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The paradox of declining female happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field...

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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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