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A comment on "Taste-based gender favouritism in high-strike decisions: evidence from the price is right"

Engel, Julia F.; Nüß, Patrick; Rudolph, Meike; … - 2024

We conduct a computational replication of Atanasov et al. (2023). In total, our analysis covers three variations: we use the cleaned dataset provided in the replication package, we clean the original data ourselves, and finally we extend the dataset to encompass an additional three years of data...

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Decoupling of labour productivity growth from median wage growth in Central and Eastern Europe

Schröder, Joris - 2020

The US-centred debate on the decoupling of productivity from workers' compensation has given rise to the question … local workers in the form of compensation and wage growth has been questioned. Existing analyses provide little explanation … as to why the gains in productivity are (not) fully passed on in the form of higher compensation, and why this is more …

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill

Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Alan Winters, L. - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 210-230

This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and...

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Wage Structure and Unionization in the U.S. Construction Sector

Bilginsoy, Cihan - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2009

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David H.; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables that inflate impact estimates via an...

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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses

Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1999

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...

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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...

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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market

Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Ulrich - 1998

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On the cyclicality and stability of real earnings

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R. - 1999

We show in this paper that important insights into the cyclical behaviour of wages can be gained by dividing (real) average hourly earnings into their straight-time hourly wage and overtime components. Our motivation is based on the idea of employment-contingent contracts. BLS published and...

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