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作者：Blau, FD; Kahn, LM
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap, with an especially large effect for wage structures. Reduced-form specifications indicate that the extent of collective bargaining coverage is also significantly negatively related to the gender pay gap. Together, the wage compression and collective bargaining results suggest that the high wage floors that are a...
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作者：Arai, M
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：Swedish data on workers matched with firms' balance-sheet reports are used to examine the relation between wages and firms' ability to pay. Results indicate that experienced and highly educated workers are sorted into profitable firms. Wages are positively correlated with profits and the capital-labor ratio, after controlling for worker quality, degree of effort supervision, job characteristics, local unemployment, firms' employment history, and employer size. Lester's range of pay due to rent...
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作者：Fairlie, RW; Meyer, BD
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We examine the impact of immigration on self-employed natives. In a new general equilibrium model of self-employment and wage/salary work, a range of plausible parameter values implies small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and native self-employment rates and earnings across 132 of the largest U. S. metropolitan areas. We find evidence suggesting t...
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作者：Bayard, K; Hellerstein, J; Neumark, D; Troske, K
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; United States Department of Labor
摘要：We use new matched employer-employee data to estimate the contributions of sex segregation and wage differences by sex within occupation, industry, establishment, and occupation-establishment cells to the overall sex gap in wages. In contrast to earlier data used to study this question, our data cover all industries and occupations across all regions of the United States. We find that segregation of women into lower-paying occupations, industries, establishments, and occupations within establi...
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作者：Hvide, HK
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：I study how education affects the allocation of talent into different sectors of the economy. I focus on two forces. First, education adds to a worker's information capital and, thus, may change her self-confidence. Second, performance contracts give a worker incentives to choose a sector according to her abilities. The baseline model predicts that workers with intermediate ability educate, while the most able skip education. In an extension, I compare the U. K. and the U. S. bachelor's degree...
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作者：Rosén, Å
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：This article analyzes Becker's ([ 1957] 1971) theory of employer discrimination within a search and wage-bargaining setting. Discriminatory firms pay workers who are discriminated against less and apply stricter hiring criteria to these workers. The highest profits are realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. Moreover, once ownership and management are separated, both highest profits and highest utility can be realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. T...
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作者：Ehrenberg, RG
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Albrecht, J; Björklund, A; Vroman, S
作者单位：Georgetown University; Stockholm University
摘要：Using 1998 data, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail. We interpret this as a strong glass ceiling effect. We use quantile regression decompositions to examine whether this pattern can be ascribed primarily to gender differences in labor market characteristics or in the rewards to those characteristics. Even after extensive controls for gender differences in age, education (both level and field), sector, ind...
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作者：Pistaferri, L
作者单位：Stanford University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：In this article, I estimate how labor supply responds to anticipated wage growth, unanticipated wage growth, and wage risk using the 1989-93 panel section of the Bank of Italy Survey of Households' Income and Wealth (SHIW), which collects individual expectations of future wages. The use of subjective expectations has several advantages. First, they provide information on the evolution and riskiness of future wages that the econometrician may never hope to observe. Moreover, this avoids the nee...
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作者：Baker, M; Solon, G
作者单位：University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Using an extraordinary database drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose Canada's growth in earnings inequality into its persistent and transitory components. We find that the growth in earnings inequality reflects both an increase in long-run inequality and an increase in earnings instability. The Canadian data strongly reject several restrictions commonly imposed in the U. S. literature, and they also suggest that imposing these evidently false restrictions may lead to distor...
