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Gender Wage Gap Among Couples and the Role of Parenthood Across the Wage Distribution in Turkey
The gender wage gap and the penalty of parenthood on wages are still major economic and sociological problems, especially in develo** economies....
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Gender-Specific Wage Structure and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S. Labor Market
This paper challenges the predominant conceptualization of the wage structure as gender-neutral, emphasizing the contribution that this makes to the...
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Wage Structures, Fairness Perceptions, and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
The paper investigates the impact of firms’ wage structures and workers’ wage fairness perceptions on workers’ well-being. For this purpose, worker...
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The incidence and effects of decentralized wage bargaining in Finland
There was a strong push from employers to decentralize wage setting in Finland in the early 2000s. We analyze the incidence of decentralization and...
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Childbearing Risk, Job Sectors, and the Motherhood Wage Penalty
Recent studies have advanced our knowledge of the motherhood wage penalty by expanding its temporal scope and adding a contextualized perspective....
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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in China: Evidence from a Correlated Random Effect Model
We specify a correlated random effect model to study inter-industry wage differentials using a small sample of Chinese firm level panel data. We find...
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Minimum Wage Effects on Reservation Wages
Reservation wages are part of the transmission mechanism between minimum wages and unemployment via the labour force participation decision. The...
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A statistical-mathematical procedure to estimate the output effect of wage rigidities
In this manuscript, a contribution to the extensive literature on the equilibrium effects of labour market frictions, with particular reference to...
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From fatherhood premium to motherhood penalty: trends in the fertility effects on men's and women's wage in China (1989–2015)
Investigating the impact of fertility on the wage earnings of men and women and its trends is important for understanding and co** with both the...
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A New Measure of Wage Risk: Occupation-Specific Evidence for Germany
This study proposes a new measure of wage risk based on estimated probabilities to earn an hourly wage that is below some specific lower quantile of...
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The Wage Impact of Immigration into the UK After the Great Recession
Over the last two decades, immigration has become a major policy concern in the UK, largely driven by EU enlargement, the Great Recession, and the...
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Time Poverty among the Young Working Poor: A Pathway from Low Wage to Psychological Well-being through Work-to-Family-Conflict
Research on time poverty is nascent, and has focused more on unpaid household production and gender differences. Using survey data of 1,620 workers...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics Across European Countries
Different strands of research analyse gender occupational differences and how they relate to differential earnings, especially among parents juggling...
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The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment
Various U.S. states and municipalities raised their mandated minimum wages between 2017 and 2019. In some areas, minimum wages became high enough to...
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“No Business [That Pays Less Than a Living Wage]…Has Any Right to Continue”—Changing Rhetorics of the Minimum Wage, 1933–1981
This paper examines how the contemporary politics of the minimum wage came to focus on whether the minimum wage kills jobs. It begins by showing that...
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Exploring and Measuring Quality of Life Determinants of Wage Workers in Egypt: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
This paper aims to identify the major significant dimensions that contribute to the overall quality of life (QOL) of wage workers in Egypt. As the...
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Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage: Findings to Date
This chapter provides an overview of the status of the implementation of the statutory minimum wage in Germany to date as well as available findings...
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Separate Lives, Uncertain Futures: Does Covid-19 Align or Differentiate the Lives of Low- and Higher-Wage Young Workers?
With labour markets already polarised in industrialised economies, if Covid-19 worsens this polarity, young people could be more severely affected....
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Wage Inequalities in the EU
This chapter discusses between- und within-country wage inequality, which is a major determinant of income inequality. Wage inequalities in Europe...
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What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States
Gender wage gaps are frequently explained as resulting from direct discrimination, employers’ preferences over personality traits, and differing...
