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Living wage', class conflict and ethnic strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2008

, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict …

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Gender gaps across the earnings distribution in Britain: are women bossy enough?

Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2009

This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …

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Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: the Mincer equation and beyond

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2005

Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as Mincer rates of return. A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross section and panel...

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Myth or fact? The beauty premium across the wage distribution

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012

the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution … driven by looks than self-esteem. Counterfactual wage distributions, constructed using distribution regression, show a beauty … premium for women at the bottom of the wage distribution. However, most of this is explained by the fact that attractive women …

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Earnings progression, human capital and incentives: Theory and evidence

Frederiksen, Anders - 2010

The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...

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