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In the UK the gender pay gap on entry to the labour market is approximately zero but after ten years after labour market entry, there is a gender wage gap of almost 25 log points. This paper explores the reason for this gender gap in early-career wage growth, considering three main hypotheses -...
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skills and experience. Women working PT in the other EU countries have similar problems to the UK but the UK has the highest …
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We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. We structurally estimate these … spillovers and show that their relative importance grows as the nominal minimum wage becomes less binding. Subsequent analysis …
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of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …
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labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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