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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Lordan, Grace - 2016

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...

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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and other measures of the … quality of workplace social capital. The compensating differentials estimated for the quality of workplace social capital are … existence of unrecognized opportunities for managers and employees to alter workplace environments, or for workers to change …

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Job Satisfaction as an Economic Variable

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to examine these concerns and evaluate the use of job satisfaction (and other subjective variables) in labor market analysis. The main theme is that, while there are good reasons to treat subjective variables gingerly, the answers to questions about how people feel...

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2022

sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …

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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

Card, David E. - 2014

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...

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It's Where You Work : Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

Barth, Erling - 2014

This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...

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Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work

Barth, Erling - 2016

We augment standard ln earnings equations with variables reflecting unmeasured attributes of workers and measured and unmeasured attributes of their employer. Using panel employee-establishment data for US manufacturing we find that the observable employer characteristics that most impact...

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not …

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What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us About Labor Market Discrimination?

O'Neill, June; O'Neill, David M. - 2021

reflected in years of work experience, utilization of part-time work, and other workplace and job characteristics …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022

The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower...

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