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independence. In short, they climb the career ladder. Climbing the career ladder explains 50% of wage growth and virtually all of … rising wage dispersion. The increasing gender wage gap by age parallels a rising hierarchy gap. Our findings suggest that … wage dynamics are shaped by the organization of production, which itself likely depends on technology, the skill set of the …
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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market …
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-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage …
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While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
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We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 … further conclude that training is positively associated with wage dispersion in Britain and a virtuous circle of wage gains …
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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage … measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of reporting error. This article summarizes a more recent wave of studies … based on more accurate wage data from payroll records and pay slips. By and large, these studies indicate that, except in …
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links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …
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