If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males,
efficient cost sharing of on-the-job training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that ...
Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-11-29)
I argue that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill
differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. I present a model of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium ("GOLE") in which ...
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers
in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to de fine informality in a
relatively comparable fashion ...
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers
in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a
relatively comparable fashion ...
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets
in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we
conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...
Walsh, Frank(University of Chicago Press, 1999-04)
The pattern of effort and wages is derived in a multisector efficiency wage model. Firms choose effort endogenously. Easily monitored or low-turnover jobs have high effort and may have low wages in equilibrium. Empirical ...