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rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and the labour force survey micro data is employed from 1989 to 2020. The …
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The US black-white wage gap is an issue that has attracted thorough investigation, but so far the corresponding gap for fringe benefits has not received sufficient attention. Although ethnic differences in fringe benefits could affect wage differences, previous analysis of ethnic wage gaps in...
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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be used for external moves between firms. We show that when female workers are the minority in the occupation and social … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … workers are the minority can explain a substantial part of the empirically observable total wage gap stemming from the glass …
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exhibit gender homophily, which reflects the fact that social ties are more likely to be formed between workers of the same … gender. In a setting when female workers are the minority, there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their …
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The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to hire new workers through referrals from their most...
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Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job … important information on the network segmentation of society. Gender, race, education, and income are concentrated unevenly …
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This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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