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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and … activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …
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This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...
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heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany. We validate the estimated elasticities with …
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heterogeneous impacts of recent labour demand shifts on occupational wages and employment, highlighting the role of cross …
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secondary employment. The contractually agreed wages of the ten percent of employees with the lowest wages did indeed rise by …
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wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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