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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321345
the work of Bhattacharya and Bundorf (2009), who provide evidence that obese workers receive lower wages on account of …) receive significantly lower wages than their non-smoking peers, while smokers who are not insured through their employer … appears to be borne by smokers themselves in the form of lower wages. Second, differences in healthcare costs between smokers …
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This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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the gap is due to low-wage women becoming more likely to receive their wages in full than low-wage men in 2000 …. Furthermore, the wage gap is stable for those who consistently receive full wages …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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Using UK LFS data, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender since the Disability Discrimination Act. Substantial differences in employment incidence and earnings continue to exist, especially for those with mental health problems. Distinguishing between...
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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act....
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This paper considers effects of body mass on wages in the years following labor market entry. The preferred models … allow current wages to be affected by both past and current body mass, as well as past wages, while also addressing the … endogeneity of body mass. I find that a history of severe obesity has a large negative effect on the wages of white men. White …
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