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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market …
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-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage …
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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage … measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of reporting error. This article summarizes a more recent wave of studies … based on more accurate wage data from payroll records and pay slips. By and large, these studies indicate that, except in …
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links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We … randomize workers into treatments where we control relative pay and chances to receive a low or a high wage. Chances can be fair …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low-wage …
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The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and …
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This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
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