... with a standard employment contract) and the extent to which job matches are inefficient in the sense that the pay in a job is below an individual’s potential earnings. The latter are determined principally by diploma level and educational specialisation, although other forms of training and labour market...

...Morley Gunderson; Byron Y Lee; Hui Wang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the union-nonunion pay gap impact separately for wages and bonuses as well as total compensation to include both wages and bonuses in China. The way in which the impact varies as control variables are added...

.../value – The paper adds to the literature on the importance of unobserved characteristics in determining labour market outcomes. Dr Nick Drydakis can be contacted at: nick.drydakis@anglia.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Modelling Labour market Data analysis Pay...

...Sergio Scicchitano Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of sticky floor and glass ceiling effects in the gender wage gap (GWG) among Spanish managers. In addition, the paper determines if the pay gap at every quantile is a result of the gender characteristic...

... equations as well as job satisfaction equations, considering satisfaction with pay, with the type of job and overall job satisfaction, in order to analyze the consequences of both types of mismatches from the workers’ viewpoint. Findings The statistical analysis shows that education and skill mismatches...

...Julie Cloutier; Denis Morin; Stéphane Renaud Purpose This study aims to determine the effect of individual and group variable pay plans on pay satisfaction among Canadian workers from six occupational groups. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical foundations rest on the discrepancy model...

... evidence has been found on the effect of activation measures on older workers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Job search Reservation wage Regression discontinuity design Older workers Jobs Job applications Pay With increasing retirement ages and an ageing labor force...

... Limited 2013 Effects of immigration Instrumental variable Native wages Labour market competition Immigration Pay Labour market United States of America This paper estimates the responses of US native workers’ wages in each education level to immigration of workers in various...

...Nick Drydakis Purpose This study seeks to investigate the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees in Athens, Greece. Design/methodology/approach To determine...

... of this phenomenon is a reduced need for job mobility to learn about workers’ abilities. This is supported by the low mobility figures she observes in the German data. Norway White collar workers Organizational structures Pay Promotion Wages Internal labor markets Comparative advantage Learning Linked...

... different countries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Gender Remuneration Earnings Pay Wage gaps Matching The literature on gender disparities has been abundant. Several pieces have examined not only the magnitude but also the reasons behind earnings gaps between men and women...

... mismatch and the returns to educational and skill mismatches in the overall Italian private labour market. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Italy Skills Education Private sector organizations Pay Educational mismatch Return to education Return to skills Empirical analysis...

... Pay Migrants Wages Surveys Rural to urban migration Selection bias To address the issue of migrants clustering in industries and cities, two additional specifications are estimated. In the first, city dummies are included; in the second, controls for industries and occupations are also...

... of approximately 40 per cent. These differences varied across origins and destinations and by gender, but the study did not find clear evidence of double discrimination. Spain Labour market Women Pay Immigrants Common support Quantile regression Immigration Counterfactual decomposition...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Immigration Pay Employees Spain Three decades ago Spain was a country of emigrants, with more than three million workers abroad (around 10 per cent of the total population), whose remittances financed around 10 per cent of imports, contributing...

... and in other non‐Western economies. Practical implications To eliminate the earnings gap, equal pay programs need to be supplemented by effective employers' programs and policies targeted at equal advancement opportunity. Originality/value The paper uses firm‐level data, which provides natural controls...

... are orthogonal to α. This process is discussed in the results section. Pay Determinants Education Human capital Spain In the last decades, a vast body of research has focused on individual educational attainment viewed as the result of human capital investment decisions (Becker, 1964...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Pay Youth Sexual discrimination Mathematical modelling Mongolia Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences, in particular, in Mongolia. Nonetheless, an increasing number of publications (see...

... be the result of a composition effect, with women having relatively low paying jobs in the private sector and relatively higher paying jobs in the public sector. Sexual discrimination Pay Glass ceilings Italy Spain Women workers There is perhaps no more socially controversial issue...

... Absenteeism Pay Hierarchical organizations Germany Probit and Tobit models are estimated to analyse workers' probability (monthly days absent larger than zero) and length (number of monthly days absent) of being absent during a given month. As repeated observations per individual...