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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college … wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap … in training participation between high- and low-skill workers is smaller within these firms. To understand the aggregate …

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Fissured firms and worker outcomes

Cortes, Guido Matias; Dabed, Diego; Oliveira, Ana; … - 2024

We consider how firms' organization of production relates to workers' wages. Using matched employer-employee data from Portugal, we document that firms differ starkly in their occupational employment concentration, even within detailed industries, with some firms employing workers across a broad...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence

Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...

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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous...

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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

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Wage response to global production links : evidence for workers from 28 European countries (2005-2014)

Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2018 - This version: 22 October, 2018

By using very rich individual-level data on workers from 28 European countries, we provide the first so extensive cross-country assessment of wage response to global production links within global value chains (GVCs) in the period 2005-2014. Unlike the other studies, we (i) address the...

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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022

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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession

Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022

Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...

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The impact of gender wage gap on sectoral economic growth : cross-country approach

Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2013

We propose an empirical analysis of testing the relationship between gender wage gap and economic growth. The study takes into account 12 manufacturing sectors in 18 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 2005.We use industrial statistics (EU KLEMS, 2008) on female and male wages that...

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