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Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality
Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James R. - 2022
Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …
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What Really Happened to British Inequality in the Early 20th Century? Evidence from National Household Expenditure Surveys 1890-1961
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - 2013
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329007
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960096
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?Atypical Work? and Compensation
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2005
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
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Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms
Labanca, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - 2022
Although constraints on hours worked at the firm-level are viewed as an important determinant of firm wages, little direct evidence exists to support this view. In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data on hours worked in Denmark to measure hours constraints and to investigate how...
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Total reward in the UK in the public and private sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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‘Atypical Work’ and Compensation
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822633