scholarly journals The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Lass ◽  
Mark Wooden
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Temporary Workers

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.

Wage effects of labour market entry via temporary work agency employment

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 937-953
Author(s):  
Tanja Buch ◽  
Annekatrin Niebuhr
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Entry ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labour Market Entry

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether labour market entry via temporary work has any (persistent) effects on labour market outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Using unique data on several cohorts of graduates from the German apprenticeship system, the authors interpret labour market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) work as a treatment and apply propensity score matching and the control function approach to investigate corresponding effects. Findings The results indicate a pronounced wage gap but no significant wage disadvantage in the medium term for graduates who switch to regular employment. Nevertheless, approximately 30 per cent of the graduates do not manage to leave the temporary help sector and, as a result, suffer persistent wage penalties. Originality/value The numerous studies that investigate the consequences of TWA work on individual labour market performance have not considered the specific situation of young workers after graduation. The rapidly increasing percentage of TWA jobs and the above average share of young workers among temporary workers call for corresponding evidence.

The wage gap in Spain for temporary workers: the effects of the Great Recession

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 1319-1346
Author(s):  
Xisco Oliver ◽  
Maria Sard
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Ordinary Least Square Regression ◽  
Permanent Workers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers across the whole wage distribution, not just at the mean, and the evolution before and after the Great Recession on this gap in Spain. Design/methodology/approach An extended Mincer-type wage equation is estimated using ordinary least square regression and unconditional quantile regression. Then, the decomposition of the wage gap between workers with fixed-term and permanent contracts for each quantile is made using the Fortin, Lemieux and Firpo decomposition. Findings The results show that two workers, with identical characteristics, earn different salaries if they have a different type of contract. However, the wage gap is not constant across the wage distribution. The penalty for temporary workers is wider for higher wages. Moreover, the main part of the gap is due to observed characteristics, but other factors (unobserved characteristics and discrimination) become more relevant in the upper part of the wage distribution. Originality/value The study expands upon available studies for Spain in two points. First, it is the first paper to the knowledge that analyse both the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers across the wage distribution and its decomposition. Second, the paper explores what happened before and after the Great Recession. In the years that the paper analyses there is also a labour market reform.

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.

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
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