scholarly journals The Gender Reservation Wage Gap: Evidence Form British Panel Data

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Brown ◽  
Jennifer Roberts ◽  
Karl B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Reservation Wage

scholarly journals The gender reservation wage gap: Evidence from British Panel data

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Brown ◽  
Jennifer Roberts ◽  
Karl Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Reservation Wage

scholarly journals The Agricultural Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazilian Micro-data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Household Surveys ◽  
Micro Data

A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are below those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrative panel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors and workers with multiple jobs to assess the role of worker composition in explaining this gap. The evidence is consistent with the presence of significant intersector sorting in Brazil. A calibrated sorting model can account for the wage gap level observed, as well as its decline, as the economy transitioned out of agriculture. (JEL J24, J31, J43, O13, Q10)

scholarly journals Should Workers Care about Firm Size?

ILR Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ferrer ◽  
Stéphanie Lluis
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Instrumental Variable Estimation ◽  
Direct Estimation ◽  
Monitoring Costs ◽  
Empirical Methodology

The authors analyze how firms of different sizes reward measured skills and unmeasured ability. The empirical methodology, based on nonlinear instrumental variable estimation, permits direct estimation of the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size. An analysis of panel data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for two periods, 1993–1998 and 1996–2001, reveals statistically significant differences between firms of different sizes. In particular, returns to unmeasured ability are higher in medium-sized firms than in either small firms or large firms. The authors find that the firm-size wage gap and the differential in returns to unmeasured ability between small and medium-sized firms is mainly explained by ability sorting. The fact that larger firms reward ability less than medium-sized firms is consistent with an explanation based on monitoring costs. When firms become “too large,” monitoring costs may prevent them from rewarding ability directly through wages.

scholarly journals Intra-country wage inequality in the OECD countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-362
Author(s):  
Manuel Nogueira ◽  
Óscar Afonso
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
New Variables ◽  
The Impact

Two reasons are mainly brought to explain the recent increase in intra-country wage inequality in favour of high-skilled labour: Skill-Biased Technological Change (SBTC) and International Trade Liberalisation (IT). Since few empirical studies have attempted to assess both interpretations across a comprehensive sample of countries, we have analysed the impact of both and added some new variables within a unified framework and across 30 OECD countries, between 2001 and 2015. Using panel data, results show that both explanations are crucial. However, considering all 30 OECD countries, the IT argument dominates. Further, we show that seven clusters must be considered in which at least one theory influence the wage gap.

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