Sentences with phrase «wage premium»

It has a significantly above - average wage premium for college graduates, a solid median income, and a below - average cost of living.

Though wage inequality by this measure has grown at a constant pace since 1979, since 2000, something other than the college wage premium mostly drove it up.

The study did not account for time off work for children, but did cite a study from 2007 that concludes lesbian wage premiums are larger in households with children.

The city also offers a respectable wage premium of 73 percent for degree - holders.

The researchers estimate a near 2 percent wage premium for each additional year of advanced vocational coursework, but no benefit (or harm) from basic vocational courses.

However, the annual wage premium for African - American fathers did not increase significantly with higher educational attainment.

In the first half of the 20th century, the high school wage premium, the amount of money high school graduates earned greater than those who hadn't graduated, declined.

Combine that with a strong wage premium for bachelor's degree holders, and it's an area that could easily attract new graduates from all over the country.

So you're wrong about the «college wage premium» when you don't include this effect.

The area has an unemployment rate of just 2.8 percent for college graduates, and a degree brings a 71 percent wage premium.

«There is room to grow here, and export jobs here have been shown to create many middle class jobs with wage premiums that pay a wage of 20 percent higher than other jobs,» Kessler says.

The fatherhood wage premium — which is when fathers, especially new ones, earn higher wages based on a variety of factors — provides an example of how fatherhood continues to be an important and valued social role, which is rewarded in the workplace.

My colleague here at the School of HRM at York, Tony Fang, found a while back that the union wage premium in Canada is about 7.7 % (see page 13), meaning that unionized workers earn that much more on average than nonunion workers.

After controlling for marriage, they found the lesbian wage premium dropped to 5.2 % and there was no significant wage difference between previously married lesbians and never - married heterosexuals.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

I stumbled on a number of facts today that put me in mind of the old, venerable debate among labor economists about the extent to which educational wage premiums driven by employers» increased demands for skills is driving overall wage inequality.

To test their theories they analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and found that race and education do have a significant impact when evaluating which fathers receive the greatest wage premium.

Public school teachers who teach in their areas of certification earn a substantial wage premium, 9 percent, compared with a premium that is not meaningfully different from zero for charter teachers and a 2 percent premium for private school teachers.

Next, we considered the local wage premium for a college degree, based on U.S. Census Bureau data.

will receive wages including the applicable premium (such as wage premiums offered pursuant to contract or policy) for the hours worked, in addition to their regular rate for the rest of the three (3) hour period.

For example, anything that drives down the pay of the non-college educated, who still account for about 2/3 of the workforce, also drives up the college wage premium.

The fatherhood wage premium is smallest for men of color and those who earn the least; further research has even suggested that there is no premium, or even a wage penalty, for the lowest - earning fathers.

Some argue that a high union wage premium and the industrial council system are important causes of inflexibility in the South African labor market.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

-- Moreover, and this part is particularly notable, the college wage premium, while as high as ever, hasn't grown much over almost two decades.

Is higher pay for police a «wage premium,» or a recognition of their responsibility to the community and their difficult working conditions?

Returning to the Fraser Institute study, the difference in the so - called «wage premium» for men and women is remarkable.

At the federal level, the wage premium for public sector workers was 7.8 per cent for males and 16.0 per cent for females compared to the private sector.

According to the literature, this wage premium is largest for men who demonstrate other «markers of workplace hegemonic masculinity,» meaning those who are white, heterosexual, married with a traditional division of labor in the home — even a stay - at - home - wife — college graduates, and white - collar workers.

«Overall, simple supply and demand specifications do a remarkable job of explaining the long - run evolution of the college wage premium.»

Once again, the rising supply of alumni helped shrink the wage premium that accrued to those with college educations.

The wage premium for women who have some graduate education and are not teachers is now 40 percent.

The wage premium stayed under 20 percent until around 1987, and it has risen steadily and strongly since then.

Meanwhile, technological advances - in particular the spread of computers - accelerated the economy's need for skills, once again boosting the wage premium received by more - educated workers (see Figure 2).

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) study suggests that a significant «wage premium» exists for those who attend fee - paying schools.

The resulting shortage of college - educated workers has driven up the wage premium for postsecondary education: Workers with bachelor's degrees earned 74 percent more than those with high school diplomas in 2010, compared with 40 percent more in 1980.

Its wage premium for college graduates is the ninth - highest among the cities we looked at, and the unemployment rate for the college educated is just 3.6 percent.

When it comes to college graduates» job prospects, they can expect a wage premium of 89 percent, and an unemployment rate of 3.6 percent.

Much has been made of the college wage premium, that is, the difference between incomes of college graduates versus non-college graduates.

«In the late 1970s, the median wage was 40 % higher for college graduates than for people with more than a high school degree; now the wage premium is about 80 %,» it says.

For example, if an employee is sent home after working two (2) hours of a shift for which the employee is entitled to a wage premium, the employee will be entitled to receive the premium rate for those two (2) hours worked plus regular pay for one (1) additional hour.

The wage premium attached to high - skill occupations in the US has been falling, reducing occupation - specific wage pressures on the labour market.

The UK has one of the strongest and most productive life sciences industries in the world, employing hundreds of thousands of highly skilled development and research professionals who command a wage premium.