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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Wage Differentials"”.
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
… provides a descriptive analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression. Many studies have examined the gender wage gap in the United States but this is the first to provide systematic analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression over time. Using data from both the March …
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Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
This thesis is a collection of three essays on labor economics from a macroeconomic prospective. Chapter 1 discusses imperfect information, self-selection and the market for higher education. It explores how the steady trends in increased tuition costs, college enrollment and returns to education …
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Early employees of venture-backed startups : selection and wage differentials
… ("early employees"). This paper explores the wage differential between venture capital-backed startups and established firms given that the two firm types compete for talent. Using data on graduating college students from MIT, I find that VC-backed startups on average pay 8%-13% higher wages …
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Essays on financial liberalization, labor market pooling, and intermetropolitan wage differentials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in the South African labour market
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-43).
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Compensating Wage Differentials: An Empirical Test of Their Existence and Impact on the Union/nonunion Wage Differential
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The effect of financial liberalization on capital accumulation, endogenous growth, and interindustry wage differentials: The case of Taiwan
The main purpose of the thesis is to investigate the link between financial policy and economic growth by focusing on the link between financial intermediation and capital accumulation. The investigation strategy is to examine the effect of recent reform in financial markets in Taiwan on its …
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The role of ability to pay and internal labor market processes in wage and gender-related wage differentials
… attempts to identify factors that influence wage and gender-related wage differentials across organizations. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate the role of ability to pay, willingness to pay, and organizational characteristics in wage determination and the development of …
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Interregional Migration and Regional Economic Structure
… the role of regional economic structure in the wage differential driven migration. It mainly focuses on the diminishing role of wage differential driven migration with the possible complementary roles of interregional trade and regional economic structures. Negative correlation between …
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Measuring the gender-wage differential and discrimination in the Eritrean labour market
… to measure and investigate the sources of gender-wage differentials in the Eritrean labour market. The study uses primary data drawn from the Income and Expenditure Household Survey collected by National Statistics Eritrea in 1997. Three separate standard wage functions for males, females and a …
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… examines trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing wage differentials within firms, which contradict the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem. Additionally, when …
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An Analysis Of Shift Work: Compensating Differentials And Local Economic Conditions
The theory of compensating differentials asserts that workers facing undesirable work conditions, such as night shift work, should receive compensating wage differentials. The theory assumes that workers can easily find jobs with desirable characteristics; thus, compensating wages are necessary to …
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… continues to pay off despite persistent gender wage differentials in Nigeria’s segmented labour market. Using a household-level cross-sectional micro dataset from the Living Standards Measurement Survey 2018/19, gender wage differentials are analysed in two ways. First, through the lens of …
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Rules And Institutions
… imperfect trust to explain non-compensating wage-differentials between identical workers and equilibrium unemployment. The fourth essay presents a theory of strikes as the consequence of the rules of action followed by firm and worker to enforce a contingent wage contract under imperfectly …
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Cu' nesci, arrinesci? Mobilità sociale e mobilità geografica dei migranti interni italiani
… than economic indicators, such as income and wage differentials, for measuring improving living conditions. Furthermore, I focus on intergenerational mobility, on changes in social class that occur from the parentsâ€TM to the childrenâ€TMs generation. The main hypotheses to test are the …
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Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
In this thesis, I study the impact of minimum wage policy and city agglomeration on wages and employment in local labour markets. This is an important topic because having a better understanding of the determinants of regional wage differentials and employment offers insights into: the roles played …
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Barriers to women’s employment and the extent of gender inequality in the labour market in Turkey
… occupational gender segregation and gender wage differentials. The first empirical chapter of the thesis sheds light on the role of traditional or conservative social norms and culture on women’s employment in Turkey based on the data for the years 1998 and 2008. It provides evidence that …
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An evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa
… emanates from past discrimination legacies. The wage gap between white workers and blacks have been marginally high. The same goes for the wage gap between males and females who find themselves performing equal value work in most cases. White workers continue to occupy high-level positions in an …
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Understanding and quantifying value capture and the role of information in migration decisions : a case of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Corridor, India
… migration decisions are a trade-off between the wage differential and the social cost of being uprooted from one's native place, it attempts to quantify the gain and see if the gains proportionately increase with increased compromises on the migrant's social ties to their native place. It relies …
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