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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Wage differential"”.
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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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Compensating Wage Differentials: An Empirical Test of Their Existence and Impact on the Union/nonunion Wage Differential
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Full- and part-time work and wages : an application to two countries
This thesis investigates the extent of the wage differentials between females working full- and part-time in Australia and the United States, the causes of these differentials and the effect these differentials have on the aggregate ratio of female to male wages in both countries. The thesis …
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Full- and part-time work and wages : an application to two countries
This thesis investigates the extent of the wage differentials between females working full- and part-time in Australia and the United States, the causes of these differentials and the effect these differentials have on the aggregate ratio of female to male wages in both countries. The thesis …
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Determinants of the earnings gap between blacks and whites: A human capital approach
The persistence of wage differences between blacks and whites has provided economists a perplexing topic for debate. It has been proposed that this gap can be attributed in great part to a disparity in educational attainment between the two groups. This study looks specifically at whether a college …
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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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Income Taxation, Hours of Work, and Non-Monetary Job Characteristics
… labor supply have implicitly assumed that the wage rate measures the opportunity cost of an hour of work. This is not necessarily true if jobs differ in their non-monetary characteristics. The theoretical analysis develops a competitive economic model that uses the concept of a compensating …
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Racial wage discrimination in South Africa before and after the first democratic election
… it is apparent that the elimination of racial wage discrimination altogether will be a lengthy process. In the present paper, racial wage discrimination is treated via a multilateral wage decomposition technique. Each observed wage differential is broken down into a productivity component and a …
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An Examination of the Relative Wage Rate of Artists
… workforce to determine if artists receive differential treatment. The One Percent Public-Use Micro-data Samples from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses were used to assess any variation in this treatment between 1990 and 2000. The results show that there is an increase in the rate at which artists …
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Topics in Canadian Aboriginal Earnings, Employment and Education: An Empirical Analysis
… 2001 and 2006, the first section examines the wage differential for various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups, including a comparison of those living on-and-off-reserves. The study finds that, while a sizeable wage gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons still exists, this …
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Doctorate unemployment as rent-seeking behavior
… is then presented. When the academic wage exceeds the nonacademic wage, those gaining faculty positions receive rents; so some individual will refuse nonacademic jobs (accept unemployment) and search for rent-yielding academic jobs. The hypothesis is that unemployment rates will be …
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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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The Firm Size Effect: An Application of Hierarchy Theories
… the positive relationship between firm size and wages is investigated through the application of hierarchy theories. Many different explanations have been proposed for this relationship, but have met only limited success at best. The strongest finding to date is that unobserved ability is a …
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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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The Plight of Kenyan Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries
… Countries as they are lured by the international wage differential. Unfortunately, most women end up being paid less than they were promised while in the country of origin, and the little they earn gets remitted back home,leaving them virtually empty handed in the destination country.</p>
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La flessibilizzazione del mercato del lavoro italiano, conseguenze economiche ed occupazionali per le giovani coorti
… between labor market adjustment based on wage inequality and job insecurity. Flexible and unequal labor markets in the English-speaking countries are opposed to the continental-European ones, where wage differentiation is limited but deregulation has been «at the margins». …
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Three Essays in Urban and Public Economics
… As controls restrict the labor supply, the wage rate may increase in the city, with land rents capitalizing the resulting wage differential. However, when this differential reaches the IC cost, workers from other cities are attracted, so that wages are kept constant. Thus, if controls are …
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The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Force Participation in The Province of Quebec (Canada)
… is to estimate the effects of legal minimum wage rate changes on the employment and labor force participation ratios of eight age-sex demographic cohorts in the Province of Quebec over the period 1966-1981. Age classes include teenagers, young adults, adults and older individuals. The …
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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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