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 ...

Semiparametric methods have been used to assess the impact of policies such as changes in the minimum wage on the distribution of wage earnings. While the methods are in the spirit of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, ...

This paper shows that there is a large inter-industry wage dispersion in the Brazilian labor market, that persists after controlling for differences in workers’ productive attributes and job characteristics. The wage ...

Using a statistical technique to correct for the presence of the selectivity bias, this paper estimates gender wage gaps in Chile for the period 1958-1990. Gender wage gaps are decomposed into an “endowment” effect –associated ...

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 gender wage gap for the city of Santiago, Chile and its explained and unexplained portions are analysed using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with data from CASEN 2017, the Chilean household survey. A novel feature ...

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are especially tenuous because of high female nonparticipation and because selection ...

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 ...