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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk : A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian - 2009

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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012

Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...

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Global and Disaggregated Measures of Earnings Mobility : Evidence from Five European Countries

Vittori, Claudia; Gregg, Paul - 2017

allows us to offer a global and disaggregate analysis of mobility as proportionate change in inequality and hence provide the … the Shorrocks mobility indices across the earnings distribution for a range of European Countries covering the main … reader with a full set of information to make his/her own judgment about the extent of mobility and country ranking …

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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy

Ryan, CJ - 2020

Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...

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The changing distribution of the male ethnic wage gap in Great Britain

Clark, Kenneth; Nolan, Steven P. - 2021

We decompose the ethnic pay gap in Great Britain across the distribution of hourly wages, yielding a detailed insight into differences between groups and how these vary over pay percentiles and through time. While some groups experience reductions in the pay gap consistent with lower...

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Job insecurity and wage outcomes in Britain

Campbell, David; Carruth, Alan A.; Dickerson, Andrew P.; … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In 1996 and 1997, approximately 1 in 10 British workers thought that it was either likely or very likely that they would lose their job within 12 months. Increased job insecurity has been touted as a possible cause for the decline of equilibrium unemployment in Britain and the United States...

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Interrupted work careers and the starting salaries of female workers in Britain

Campbell, David (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Evidence from previous studies suggests that part of the observed wage differential between males and females is due to the spells of non-participation experienced by women. During these career breaks, no new investment in human capital occurs and the existing stock of skills depreciates,...

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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...

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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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