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Do seemingly large minimum-wage increases in an environment of deep recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment than is often observed in the modern minimum wage literature? This paper uses three data sets to examine the employment effects of the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum...
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Do seemingly large minimum-wage increases in an environment of deep recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment than is often observed in the modern minimum wage literature? This paper uses three data sets to examine the employment effects of the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617569
of the earnings distribution. This selection corrected gap is found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower … rewards for their characteristics than men. Indeed, the results suggest the gender earnings gap would all but disappear across … the earnings distribution if women working full-time received the same returns to their characteristics as men working …
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This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in France. I estimate intergenerational … earnings elasticities for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the … well as an important compression of earnings differentials. Intergenerational mobility is estimated using a two …
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Magazine. The lists provide an interesting collection of people, that includes their earnings, and the perception of citizens … concerning the attributes that made them become celebrities. We analyze the relationship between their earnings and the …
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growth in earnings accounts for nearly three quarters of the total adjustment for the average country. The bulk of the … earnings adjustment was driven by a reduction in working hours, as well as a shift away from the better-paid industrial sector …
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This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...
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I evaluate the impact of the UK Working Time Regulations 1998, which introduced mandatory paid holiday entitlement. The regulation gave (nearly) all workers the right to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid holiday per a year. With constant weekly pay this change amounts effectively to an increase in...
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earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
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The existing empirical evidence on whether U.S. labor markets reward workers for second-language skills is meager and … positive bilingual-earnings relationship found in the most current research on this topic. We test the relationship using … earnings to be mixed. The relationship is sufficiently frail that statistically significant results eventually dissolve as more …
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