Building on the economic research that demonstrates a positive relationship between height and worker ability, this paper compares the wage returns to height for immigrants and natives to explore possible explanations for the positive wage-height gradient. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large...

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany the debate on the remuneration of temporary agency workers has intensified recently. The study finds that the temp wage gap in Germany is indeed large. Decomposition reveals that the gap is mainly driven by differences in personal characteristics. Temps already suffer from a marked wage decline before entering the te...

Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers’ Income? We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers’ inc...

This paper provides an analytical characterization of the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable heterogeneous-agent economies with various insurance market structures. We express welfare effects both in terms of changes in the observable joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours, and in terms of the underlying parameters ...

according to the prevailing view in the islamic jurisprudence since breastfeeding is not mother's duty, she is entitled to demand wage from her husband for breastfeeding her child. in this article, the authors intend to prove, through reviewing the evidences of this view and the alternative one, that there is a meaningful relationship between the following phrases: “if they breastfeed for you, ...

Recent widening of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers has been attributed mainly to skill-biased-technical-change and to trade liberalization. This paper examines the effects of the two in a unified model, in which trade and technology adoption are endogenous. The paper has two main results. First, technical progress increases the wage gap in developed and in less developed coun...

Using nationally-representative linked employer-employee data for Britain I find bisexual men earn around 31% less per hour than heterosexual men, a differential that falls to 20% having controlled for demographic, job and workplace characteristics. The gap is apparent within workplaces and within detailed occupational classifications. There is no wage differential between gay and heterosexual ...

â â â â â korea’s youth unemployment problem has continued to worsen since 2004. according to an e24, j64, an analysis of raw data from statistics korea’s economically active population survey and supplementary results of the economically active population survey on youths to confirm whether youth unemployment affects all youths, more youths were delaying graduation or taking leaves of abse...