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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials And Employment: Germany Vs. The US
White Papers Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job creation. It is found that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Wage Growth, Human Capital And Risk Preference: Evidence From The British Household Panel Survey
White Papers The aim of this paper is to explore how interpersonal variation in risk preference affects human capital investment and, hence, wage growth. The paper investigates the link between risk preference, human capital investment and wage growth using...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Wage Widget
Downloads Input your hourly wage and watch how the moolah adds up while you surf the Internet, go to the bathroom, yap with your co-workers, and occasionally work. Keeps a running total of the amount of money you've earned.
[April 26, 2007, 8:58]
Encouraging Job Advancement Among Low-Wage Workers: A New Approach
White Papers Employment in certain high-wage sectors and especially at firms that pay wage premiums and offer career ladders is strongly correlated with earnings gains over time for initially low earners. While their employment rates have risen considerably...
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Is The Minimum Wage An Effective Tool To Promote Decent Work And Reduce Poverty?: The Experience Of Selected Developing Countries
White Papers This paper presents a survey of the effects of minimum wage legislation on the level of employment and poverty in selected developing countries. Following the introduction, the second section of the paper provides a literature survey of the...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Female Wage Inequality In Latin American Labor Markets
White Papers This paper will examine women's wage patterns before and after structural reforms were implemented in three Latin American countries, to identify how women fared in the post-reform period as compared to the pre-reform period.
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Occupational Segregation And The Gender Wage Gap In Japan
White Papers Third, it analyzes the sources of the wage gap by gender. This paper has a modest objective; it explores three employment outcomes in relation to the distribution of occupations. First, the paper analyzes the degree of occupational segregation in...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Real Wage Dynamics And The Phillips Curve
White Papers Since Friedman (1968), the traditional derivation of the accelerationist Phillips curve has related expected real wage inflation to the unemployment rate and then invoked markup pricing and adaptive expectations to generate the accelerationist...
[September 15, 2003, 23:54]
Job Mobility And Wage Growth: Evidence From The NLSY79
White Papers A related issue of long-standing concern is the effect of job immobility on wage growth. Because these skills cannot be transferred to a new job if a separation occurs, workers and firms agree to share the costs and benefits of the investment - and...
[May 31, 2005, 3:00]
Optimal Monetary Policy With Staggered Wage And Price Contracts
White Papers The unconditional expectation of average household utility can be expressed in terms of the unconditional variances of the output gap, price inflation,and wage inflation. Monetary policy cannot replicate the Pareto optimal equilibrium that would...
[September 16, 2003, 1:41]
Employment And Wage Consequences Of Young Women's Labor Force And Job Transitions
White Papers The paper traces the employment and wage inequalities to young women's early work experiences, in particular work-related transitions. By age 30 white women are more likely to be employed, either full or part-time, and to earn more compared to...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Testing The Morale Theory Of Nominal Wage Rigidity
White Papers This paper attempts to test the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity by identifying the causal effect of pay cuts on workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this causal...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Product Market Competition Returns To Skill And Wage Inequality
White Papers This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. A simple model is developed in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
The Inter-Industry Wage Structure Of U.S. Multinationals
White Papers Little is known about wage determination by multinationals, despite the much - discussed role of globalisation upon wage dispersion. Substantial differences are found in employment distributions, that the inter-industry wage structure of US...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Decomposing Changes In Wage Distributions: A Unified Approach
White Papers Over the last fifteen years, a large number of studies have attempted to explain the determinants and changes of wage inequality. This paper proposes a simple procedure to decompose changes in the distribution of wages or in other distributions...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, Or Rising Demand For Skill?
White Papers Using data from the May and Outgoing Rotation Group (ORG) supplements of the CPS, this paper shows that a large fraction of the growth in residual wage inequality between 1973 and 2003 is due to spurious composition effects.
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Higher Education Policies And Decelerating Wage Inequality: Cross-State Evidence From The 1990s
White Papers The paper exploits differences across the U.S.states in the evolution of the returns to college from 1979 to 2002 and in the evolution of college enrollment rates, tuition levels and state appropriations per college-age person from 1970 to 1993...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
Downward Nominal-Wage Rigidity: A Critical Assessment And Some New Evidence For Canada
White Papers The first goal is to critically review existing literature on the extent and consequences of downward nominal-wage rigidity (DNWR). The second goal of the paper is to take a new look at the effect of DNWR on wage and employment determination in...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
London Leads South-east For Wage Hikes
News This compares to £38,577 in London — a 15 percent higher average wage. Wages for London IT professionals are rising faster than those for their peers in the rest of the south-east. A survey of more than 4,000 IT staff has found salaries in the...
[January 18, 2008, 8:00]
Production Function And Wage Equation Estimation With Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence From A New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
White Papers The data from manufacturing establishments in the 1990 DEED is then used to update and expand on previous findings, using a more limited data set, regarding the measurement of the labor input and theories of wage determination.
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
