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Long work hours, part-time work, and trends in the gender gap in pay, the motherhood wage penalty, and the fatherhood wage premium
We assess how changes in the social organization and compensation of work hours over the last three decades are associated with changes in wage differentials among mothers, fathers, childless women, and childless men. We ...
Self-Employment and Queues for Wage Work: Evidence from Chile
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015)
Self-employment can be considered as either the result of a self-selection process or areflection of rigidities and skill mismatch in the labour market or both. We estimate a doubleselection model where individuals queue ...
The economics of wage-led recovery: analysis and policy recommendations
(2011-07)
The financial crisis and Great Recession have been followed by a jobs shortage crisis that most forecasts predict will persist for years given current policies. This paper argues for a wage-led recovery and growth program ...
LABOR CONTEXT IN ECUADOR IN THE 1930s: ACTIVE ECONOMIC POPULATION, LEGAL CONTEXT AND MINIMUM WAGES
(Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, 2023)
Wage inequality and trade liberalization : evidence from Argentina
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia., 2000-11)
Wage inequality has increased substantially in Argentina during the nineties. At the same time during this decade Argentina has gone through a rapid and deep process of trade liberalization. In this paper we try to associate ...
Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
(2012-09-12)
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s ...
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign
workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted,
purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...
The firm size wage premium: a quantile analysis
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2002-04-04)
Empirical evidence shows that larger firms pay higher wages than smaller ones. This wage premium is called the firm size wage effect. The firm size effect on wages may be attributed to many factors, as differentials on ...
The Labor Impact of Minimum Wages: A Method for Estimating the Effect in Emerging Economies using Chilean Panel Data
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-01)
We develop and use a statistical matching technique to construct a panel data set from the Chilean National Employment Survey; and then use this panel to test the short term impacts of minimum wage increases during the ...
NAFTA and Wage Inequality in Mexico: An Analysis for Border Cities, 1992-2016
(El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C., 2018)