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This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...
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It is widely believed that rent-sharing reduces the incentives for investment when long term contracts are infeasible because some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. We propose a simple test for the degree of hold-up based on the fraction of capital costs that are deducted...
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The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
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We review the literature on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. There is strong evidence from a variety of … productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a … literature also concludes that firm pay setting is important for wage inequality, with many studies finding that firm wage …
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earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after …
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A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our … unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …
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Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...
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perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality … dramatic rise in West German wage inequality. Our estimates suggest that the increasing dispersion of West German wages has … workers to establishments explain a large share of the rise in inequality along all three dimensions. -- wage inequality …
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