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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a promotion affects both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation significantly …, though in two different ways: An expected promotion increases extrinsic motivation whereas intrinsic motivation is highest … subsequent to a realized promotion. The relationship between extrinsic motivation and expected promotions implies that promotions …
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Nurses wanted : is the job too harsh or is the wage too low?
DiTomaso, M. L. (contributor); Strøm, Steinar (contributor) - 2008
When entering the job market, nurses choose among different kind of jobs. Each of these jobs is characterized by wage, sector (primary care or hospital) and shift (daytime work or shift). This paper estimates a multisector-job-type random utility model of labor supply on data for Norwegian...
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
accumulation within career levels. A part-time spell of four years marks the point at which forgone chances of promotion and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492126
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The gender gap in earnings losses after job displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2021
. Our results show that after a mass layoff, women's earnings losses are about 35% higher than men's, with the gap …
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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017
We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending Gelbach's (2016) omitted variable bias decomposition procedure to obtain the contribution of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal...
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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015
This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap, the next stage of the analysis seeks to account for...
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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018
generous promotion policies. For its part, unobserved worker quality plays only a very weak role, while there is even less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941280
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The causes and economic consequences of envy
Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386
In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...
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The provision of wage insurance by the firm : evidence from a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Portela, Miguel (contributor) - 2005
"We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in product markets? How does the amount of insurance provided vary with firm and worker attributes?...
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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap : The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Job-title Heterogeneity
Addison, John T. - 2019
generous promotion policies. For its part, unobserved worker quality plays only a very weak role, while there is even less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892193