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Salary History Bans : Strategic Disclosure by Job Applicants and the Gender Pay Gap

Sinha, Sourav - 2022

I study the effects of US salary history bans which restrict employers from inquiring about job applicants’ pay history during the hiring process, but allow candidates to voluntarily share information. Using a difference-in-differences design, I show that these policies narrowed the gender pay...

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Employment Guarantee Schemes and Wages in India

Bahal, Girish - 2016

agricultural wages in India. Depending on the underlying theoretical mechanism, private wages can either respond to contemporaneous … on wages. Identification of program impact is achieved by partialling out a host of district and year specific controls …. We find a significant positive impact on wages through the stock effect. In contrast, we do not find an immediate jump in …

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Employment effects of regulatory thresholds for French and German companies : a study commissioned by the French Senate

Poutvaara, Panu; Drometer, Marcus; Méango, Romuald; … - 2017

This study presents a comparative analysis of regulatory thresholds applicable to firms in France and in Germany. A central question tackled by the report is whether regulations related to limits on firms’ employment appear to prevent French firms from growing above these thresholds. The first...

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Wage Discrimination in India's Formal and Informal Labour Markets

Neog, Bhaskar - 2018

need for better regulation of the informal labour market in India … India using the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) data for the four major rounds …

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Gender Pay Gap : 2018 Briefing

Andrews, Kate; Jessop, Julian - 2021

The official calculation for the 2018 gender pay gap is at a record low of 8.6% for full-time workers, with a negligible gender pay gap for women aged 22-39. This gap increases later in life, with evidence from the United States that the bulk of the pay gap is a result of time taken off to raise...

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The transformation of the Mexican labour regulation model and its link to North American economic integration

Bensusán Areous, Graciela I. - 2020

This working paper analyses the transformations of the Mexican labour regulation model in its different phases. The … presents the genesis and characteristics of the new labour regulation model, which is based on the 2017 constitutional reforms … core the linkages between the Mexican labour regulation model and trade liberalization. …

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Labor law reforms and labor market performance in Egypt

Abdelgouad, Ahmed Fayez - 2014

This study introduces a review of the institutional framework in the Egyptian labor market to show how it is regulated by discussing extensively the most recent labor law regulations in Egypt and the main reasons behind enacting this law. The paper guides also to different data sources that can...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Minimum wages for domestic workers : impact evaluation of the Indian experience

Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018

India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining matching procedures with difference-in-difference, the paper estimates both … the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …

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State and local policies and sectoral labor standards : from individual rights to collective power

Jacobs, Ken; Smith, Rebecca; McBride, Justin - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 74 (2021) 5, pp. 1132-1154

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