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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment Across Developing Countries

Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022

formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality …

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Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums : Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2021

more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the paper attempted to analyse the impact of union membership on wages in the …

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Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations

Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain the gap. In...

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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022

The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...

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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain

de León, Alba; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022

This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...

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Does Over-Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Role of Workers' Origin and Immigrants' Background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …

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Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S

Fernández‐Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis; … - 2022

We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in … decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working hours and estimating a nonseparable model of wages. We decompose … changes in the wage distribution into composition, structural and selection effects.Composition effects have increased wages …

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Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Åslund, Olof; Bratu, Cristina; Lombardi, Stefano; … - 2022

We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for...

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Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay

Johnston, Andrew - 2022

I conduct a discrete-choice experiment with responses linked to administrative teacher and student records to examine teacher preferences for compensation structure and working conditions. I calculate willingness-to-pay for a rich set of work attributes. High-performing teachers have similar...

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bockerman, Petri - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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