Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work

May I Work Part-Time? An Exploration of Predicted Employer Responses to Employee Requests for Part-Time Work

Increasing numbers of professional and managerial employees are requesting a shift from full-time to part-time work. In a policy-capturing study, 200 attorneys (including both partners and associates) rated how likely their firms would be to accept different hypothetical attorneys’ requests for part-time work. Supporting predictions based on dependency theory, respondents reported that their fi...

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe’s most eg...

The Employer Size-Wage Effect

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The Work and Human Investment Incentives of Negative Income Tax and Wage Subsidy

Employer Learning , Job Mobility , and Wage Dynamics ∗

This paper takes a new approach to testing whether employer learning is public or private. We show that public and private learning schemes make two distinct predictions about the curvature of wage growth paths when there is a job change, because the amount of information transferred to a new employer about workers’ productivity is smaller in the private learning case than in the public learnin...