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Occupational Match Quality and Gender Over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T. - 2019
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 differences among more educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892236
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What's Wrong with Executive Compensation?
Harris, Jared D. - 2009
I broadly explore the question by examining several common criticisms of CEO pay through both philosophical and empirical lenses. While some criticisms appear to be unfounded, the analysis shows not only that current compensation practices are problematic both from the standpoint of distributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216234
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The Debate about Mandatory Retirement in Ontario Universities: Positive and Personal Choices about Retirement at 65
Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005
The debate about mandatory retirement is fundamentally a moral issue, about human rights, but one strongly related to several major economic issues. Mandatory retirement is a form of age discrimination that seems to be strictly prohibited by section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights. But...
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Implementing the 35 Hour Workweek by Means of Overtime Taxation
Padilla, Victoria Osuna; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2002
In this paper we study the implications of taxing overtime work in order to reduce the workweek. To this purpose we … substitutability between overtime and employment using business cycle information. We find that a tax-rate of 12% of overtime wages … to achieve the same workweek reduction are significantly larger. Finally, we find that taxing overtime dampens business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063215
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Reduction of working time in Austria : a mixed methods study relating a new work time policy to employee preferences
Gerold, Stefanie; Nocker, Matthias - 2015
This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees' desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work longer...
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : strictly controlling overtime hours and pay does not boost employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sagyndykova, Galiya - 2020
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to … work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252951
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The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation
Bagchi, Aditi - 2010
Although it is widely understood that employers and employees are not equally situated, we fail adequately to account for this inequality in the law governing their relationship. We can best understand this inequality in terms of status, which encompasses one's level of income, leisure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209967
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More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States
Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-26
A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (Rev Econ Stat 92:945-964, 2010) and Allegretto et al. (Ind Relat 50:205-240, 2011)...
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Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate : throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William L. - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696874
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More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States
Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William L. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-26
A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (Rev Econ Stat 92:945-964, 2010) and Allegretto et al. (Ind Relat 50:205-240, 2011)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480173