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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6675 David W. Johnston
Wang-Sheng Lee
Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 32-54)
I0, I31, J62
6674 Karina Doorley
Eva Sierminska
Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 29–34 )
D31, J24, J30, J70
6673 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2015, 83 (3), 307 -313 )
J3, J7, J28
6672 Xavier Ramos
Dirk Van de gaer
Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(5), 855-883)
D3, D63
6670 Christoph Ehlert
Jochen Kluve
Sandra Schaffner
Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773)
J08, J68
6669 Stephane Bonhomme
Laura Hospido
The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data
We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from social security records to document the evolution of earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1244–1278)
D31, J21, J31
6668 Yu Chen
Kenneth D. Gibb
Chris Leishman
Robert E. Wright
The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach
This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (5), 523 - 542)
J1, R2
6664 J. William Ambrosini
Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri
Dragos Radu
The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2015, 34 (4), 753 - 793)
F22, J61, O15
6663 Andrew Seltzer
The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 66, 4 (2013), 1039–1062.)
N3, J3
6662 Martyn J. Andrews
Leonard Gill
Thorsten Schank
Richard Upward
High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 824-827)
J20, J30, C23
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