Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests a link between the wage elasticity of labor supply and wage penalties. Should one group of workers be less elastic in their supply choices, that group is predicted to earn less than others. To measure wage elasticity, I estimate a hazard model on voluntary job separations using...

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply elasticities is driven by across firm sorting rather than within firm differences, a feature predicted in the search t...

The Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes

828 The Journal of Human Resources women in hiring and promotion practices, then to (2) differences in noncognitive skills, namely assertive negotiating, and finally, and least importantly, to (3) the possession of education and skills needed for high paying jobs (Hill and Silva 2005, p. 3). After decades of publications investigating male-female earnings differences, economists have formed a c...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...