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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Wage Distribution"”.
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A quantile regression analysis of the conditional female wage distribution in post-apartheid South Africa
… earnings. However, because of the heterogenous distribution of South African labour force participants, a mean analysis is not sufficient. This paper investigates changes in the post-Apartheid conditional earnings distribution of women in South Africa of all races using conditional quantile …
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The role of agglomeration and dispersion forces on the spatial distribution of economic activity in Chile: an empirical analysis of spatial wage distribution and regional housing prices
… concentration is critical for the case of wages. In spite of the relevance, the Introduction shows the lack of discussion to understand the forces affecting this spatial distribution. In this sense, the Introduction proposes “[This thesis]covers this gap offering three essays oriented to …
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Learning in the labor market
… of learning on labor mobility, labor supply, wage distribution, wage dynamics, and allocations of workers under different assumptions about the nature of employer learning. The first essay develops a model of job mobility and wage dispersion under the assumption that the current employers have …
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
… real and it matters. This thesis examines gender wage inequality in the post-apartheid South African labour market from 1993 to 2015 and finds that there is a substantial median wage gap of between 35% and 23% since the end of apartheid. This gap is unexplained by differences in human capital …
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Three Essays on Robust Estimation of Key Factors Underlying the Changes to the U.S. Income Distribution
… outcomes when the behaviors of the tails of the distribution bear much importance. These studies are very relevant in the current context of the U.S. labor market because over the last three decades the U.S. income distribution have come very skewed and therefore, we are more interested at the …
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Essays on minimum wages and declining wage inequality in Latin America
… thesis studies the factors behind the declining wage inequality in Latin America, focusing on minimum wage policies. Chapter 1 studies potential explanations of the declining wage inequality in Brazil such as changes in demographic/skill composition, wage structure, occupations/sectors and …
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Measuring Wages and Inequality in South Africa Using Two Nationally Representative Data Series
… Secondly, I consider how estimates of the wage distribution differ between NIDS and PALMS when using the most comparable estimation methods available. Finally, I discuss what the data reveal about the evolution of inequality in South African wages between 2008 and 2014.
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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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An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa
… market earnings as well as impairment-related wage discrimination is not well-known in South Africa. Therefore, this thesis sought to establish the relationship between health on the one hand, and labour force participation, wage determination and wage discrimination on the other, in South …
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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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Does a Child Penalty Exist in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market?
… quantile regressions (RIF-OLS) to analyse the wage returns along the wage distribution, the study finds that there exists a motherhood wage penalty at lower wage levels, but this effect wanes in prominence at higher wage quantiles. At higher wage levels, mothers earn higher wages than their …
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Assessing the Impact of Minimum Wage on South Africa's Earnings distribution
The topic of minimum wage has been of interest for a long time and particularly its potential in addressing wage inequality and ultimately improve the livelihoods of the most marginalized. South Africa has high prevalence of inequality and poverty and the minimum wage is touted as a potential …
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Temporary migration and wage inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand
… the relationship between temporary migration and wage inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand. The transition in migration policy preferences in Aotearoa New Zealand, moving away from traditional source countries to a human capital regime, and subsequent changes in policies, particularly in the past …
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Wage inequality and the role of pre-market skills
… of pre-market skills to examine an aspect of wage inequality in the U.S. labor market. Chapter One analyzes the factors associated with the change in the gender wage gap for young workers. I decompose the change in the gender wage gap over the entire wage distribution into factors associated …
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Three Essays on Worker Displacement
… 1 examines the effect of job displacement on the distribution of earnings. I utilize a novel technique, quantile fixed effect regression, in order to examine how the overall distribution of earnings changes while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in worker quality. I find that while mean …
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… general well-beings of the working population-- wage inequality and wage health insurance-- are studied. This thesis consists three chapters. In the first chapter, we (co-authored) examine the effects of corporate restructuring on wage patterns and inequality in a Fortune 500 firm. We show that …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
… in the average and the variance of the log-wage distribution, and (ii) are nonparamnetrically identified from the cross-regional variation in the sectoral responses of employment and wages to observable sector-level demand shifters. Applying these results, we find that the rise in world …
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The role of relevant others in the determination of fair pay
… equity of pay not from the absolute size of the wage, but rather through comparisons of their wages to those of other people. In addition, pay referents such as the cost of living, also are used to evaluate pay. This use of relevant others is known as the social comparison process. This study …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two topics in labor economics: the distribution of earnings and the effect of social networks on starting wage. </p><p>Chapter 1, co-authored with Professor Hugo Jales, evaluates theoretical models of the distribution of earnings. The shape of the distribution of earnings in a …
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Exploring the status of African Women in the South African Labour Market 1995-2004
… the trend like gender pay gaps. Secondly, gender wage differentials are scrutinized across the entire wage distribution in 1995, 1999 and 2004. The analysis utilises quantile regression estimation and counterfactual decomposition methods. This framework provides different estimates of the …
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