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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?
Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of … the cultural industries are paid differently compared with their respective main industries. Workers in entertainment and … publishing and printing are less endowed with standard labour market characteristics. However, whereas workers in entertainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703804
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822237
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Public-private wage differentials in Turkey: public policy or market dynamics?
Akarçay- Gürbüz, Ayça; Polat, Sezgin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We evaluate public-private sector wage differentials in Turkey for the years 2005 and 2011, a period marked by educational upgrading and restructuring in public employment. Using micro data from Household Labour Force Surveys we find a positive premium for low wage earners and a penalty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108555
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Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of Labor Economics
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642959
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2005
-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262658
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
Heitmüller, Axel - 2004
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274204
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Analyzing wage differentials by fields of study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060230
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Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688524
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Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744627
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Are Temporary Workers Discriminated Against? Evidence from Europe
COMI, Simona; GRASSENI, Mara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the wage gap between temporary and permanent jobs in 12 European countries. We use the semi-parametric (quantile regression) approach and evaluate the wage gap across the entire wage distribution. We show that the fixed-term wage gap decreases as higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998482