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persistently confined to the same workers or to particular occupational groups. Individuals with a history of unemployment and … workers' perceptions of unemployment are strong predictors of actual unemployment experiences occurring in the subsequent year … further analyses of the workings of the labour market. -- unemployment expectations ; job satisfaction ; cross-section models …
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WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long term increase through the lenses of the occupations women held after the war. Almost two decades...
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minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...
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In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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