Search Results - subject:"Compensating wage differentials"

Compensating wage differentials for defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension scheme benefits

Inkmann, Joachim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

. In our pre-ferred specifications we find evidence for perfect compensating wage differentials for both occupational DB … wage differentials for occupational pension scheme benefits in the UK using the newly available English Longi-tudinal Study … wage benefits for an employee’s given produc-tivity potential. This paper presents an empirical analysis of compensating …

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Testing for Employee Discrimination in Britain using Matched Employer-Employee Data.

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2006

We use recent matched employer-employee data to directly test if white workers have a taste for racial discrimination in Britain. We formally introduce individual and firm heterogeneity into the discrimination model used by Becker (1957, 1971) which we extend to generate predictions consistent...

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Labor unemployment risk and corporate financing decisions

Agrawal, Ashwini K.; Matsa, David A. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 108 (2013) 2, pp. 449-470

This paper presents evidence that firms choose conservative financial policies partly to mitigate workers' exposure to unemployment risk. We exploit changes in state unemployment insurance laws as a source of variation in the costs borne by workers during layoff spells. We find that higher...

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Work now, pay later? An empirical analysis of the pension–pay trade off

Haynes, Jonathan B.; Sessions, John G. - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 835-843

We employ random effects panel data regression methodology to investigate the potential compensating differential between wages and pensions. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and derived prospective pension variables as calculated by the Institute for Fiscal Studies...

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Labor unemployment risk and corporate financing decisions

Agrawal, Ashwini K.; Matsa, David A. - In: Journal of financial economics 108 (2013) 2, pp. 449-470

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Work now, pay later? : an empirical analysis of the pension-pay trade off

Haynes, Jonathan B.; Sessions, John G. - In: Economic modelling 30 (2013), pp. 835-843

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The value of a statistical injury : new evidence from the Swiss labor market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 149 (2013) 1, pp. 57-86

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Competitive Markets with Endogenous Health Risks

Bennardo, Alberto; Piccolo, Salvatore - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2005

not if only assets with deterministic payoffs are traded. Compensating wage differentials which equalize the utilities of …

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The motherhood wage gap: What about job amenities?

Felfe, Christina - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 59-67

Women with children tend to earn lower hourly wages than women without children — a shortfall known as the ‘motherhood wage gap’. While many studies provide evidence for this empirical fact and explore several hypotheses about its causes, the impact of motherhood on job dimensions other...

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Evaluating the efficiency and equity of federal fiscal equalization

Albouy, David - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 9-10, pp. 824-839

Theoretically, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient should ignore local cost differences, subsidize positive externalities, and offset differences in federal-tax payments and local taxes levied on non-residents, but not local tax revenues from residents. Transfers...

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