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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424042
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Labor heterogeneity, inequality and institutional change
Skott, Peter - 2010
US earnings inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and the prospect of a reversal depends on what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758088
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271659
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517238
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
occupations and tasks. This allows us to disentangle different sources of postgraduates' relative earnings and look at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
occupations and tasks. This allows us to disentangle different sources of postgraduates' relative earnings and look at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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Minimum wages and wage compression in Belgian industries
Vandekerckhove, Sem; Desiere, Sam; Lenaerts, Karolien - 2020
Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity … inequality in Belgium. Building on the model of Lee (1999) and the critique by Autor, Manning and Smith (2014), we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243787
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
is that the decline in the gap is related to the overall decline in wage inequality, the rise in minimum wages, and more … egalitarian gender attitudes. The gender attitudes are responsible for a smaller effect than wage inequality is. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607922