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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 ...
Trade policy and wage inequality in Chile since the 1990s
(ECLAC, 2013-04)
Using the results of seven nationally and regionally representative household surveys, this study analyzes the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality through a channel in which applied tariffs, owing to the ...
Minimum wage and education premium in Argentina: 2004-2014
(2016-11)
During the period 2004 to 2014, as Argentina was recovering from one of its most important economic crisis, there was an important reduction of the education wage premiun, Among the reasons for this behavior we find out ...
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 ...
Mind the wage gap by internet
(2015)
Literature on labor economics shows the existence of wage gap between internet users and non-users. Moreover, wage gap is wider in developing countries than developed world. This paper investigates whether internet users ...
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 ...