...Yu-cheng Lai Purpose This study examines how decarbonization and business research and development (R&D) investment affect wages in Taiwan, with particular attention to skilled female employees during the transition to a low-carbon economy. Design/methodology/approach Using pooled cross...

...Caroline Krafft; Ragui Assaad Purpose This paper aims to investigate the wage-productivity relationship at the firm level in Egypt. It quantifies the relative role of factors related to the use of efficiency wages (paying higher than market wages to improve worker quality, effort and retention...

...Mina Sami Purpose This study examines the effect of digital skills on wages and employment in Egypt, with particular focus on gender differences. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the 2023 wave of the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS). Our empirical methodology uses several...

...Roberto Dopeso-Fernández; Aleksander Kucel; Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí Purpose This paper studies early labor market effects of doing a PhD fully in Spain, partially abroad or fully abroad for a sample of recent young Spanish doctorate graduates. We check their pecuniary (wage) and non-pecuniary...

..., these tend to be for lower-paid jobs compared to those received by cisgender women (by 20%) and cisgender men (by 21.3%). This wage sorting into lower-paid vacancies suggests a penalty in terms of lower returns on education, which could drive wage and income differences. Practical implications...

... 2023 24 02 2024 20 05 2024 15 06 2024 25 06 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Employment Immigration Wages Cross-border workers Occupational skill specificity Despite widespread concern...

...Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt; Caroline Wehner; Sabine Krueger; Christian Ebner Purpose This article aims to examine whether specific job tasks measured at the individual level or personality traits are associated with wages and whether the relationship between personality traits and wages differs...

...Begona Eguia; Carlos Rodriguez Gonzalez; Felipe Serrano Purpose The authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been able to overcome this situation by obtaining a job...

...Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta; Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera; Francesco Pastore Purpose The wage effect of job–education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates that allow...

...Jacek Liwiński Purpose This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach The author employs the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from...

...Naouel Ben Jemaa Cherif Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of training on labor productivity and wages in order to examine how the benefits from training are shared between employers and employees. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes an industry panel...

... corporatist structure, perhaps the least risky and tortuous route visible on the horizon toward worker representation” (Chan, 1993 , p. 61). At the national level, Chinese unions have significantly positive effects on wages but no significant effect on employment and productivity. In the eastern region...

...Laura Caron Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the labor market outcomes of people with disabilities (PwD) in Indonesia and compares them to people without disabilities. It first studies the labor force participation of PwD before examining the large and persistent wage gaps...

..., it investigates the effect of the education-job mismatch on the wages of youth in Kyrgyzstan. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the International Labor Organization 2013 data from the school-to-work transition survey for Kyrgyzstan. The Kaplan–Meier failure analysis is employed to demonstrate...

... the impact of international student mobility (ISM) on the first wages of tertiary education graduates in Poland. The author uses data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish graduates (2007 Graduate Tracer Study) and regresses the hourly net wage rate of salaried workers in their first job after...

...Marjan Petreski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate if public provision of employment support services to youth leads to reduced informality and increased wages in transition economies. Design/methodology/approach The author uses the school-to-work transition data sets...

...-bourgogne.fr 19 01 2017 13 10 2017 02 03 2018 13 03 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only France Quantile regression Wages Post-secondary graduates Soft-skills Although young graduates in France...

...Nick Drydakis Purpose Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination. However, a reluctance to consider...

..., as compared to those exhibiting feminine personality traits. Moreover, women with masculine personality traits take up positions which offer 10 percentage points higher wages, in comparison with those displaying feminine personality traits. Furthermore, wage premiums are higher for those exhibiting masculine...

... of educational mismatch among workers. Moroever, different versions of the Duncan and Hoffman wage equation are estimated depending on whether basic or alternative measures of educational mismatch are included. Findings – The empirical analyses provide the following results: first, at least two-third...