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This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...
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This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
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reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy … narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within …
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particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced …, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year later. This is driven by a relative increase in females in the top … hypothesis that ongoing reporting is most effective in organisations with weaker pre-existing pressures to narrow their gender …
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Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each … year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the … established literature on the gender pay gap based predominately on employee information. More specifically, we explore the …
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