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Compensating Wage Differentials

Compensating Wage Differentials is a labor market phenomenon in which wage differences arise to offset non-monetary characteristics of jobs, such as risk, discomfort, or undesirable working conditions, thereby equating the utility of workers across otherwise heterogeneous employment options.

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Compensating DifferentialsEqualizing Differences

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287

Efficiency Wages and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure

Alan B. Krueger, Lawrence H. Summers · Econometrica · 1988 · 1.7K citations

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Industry-Specific Human Capital: Evidence from Displaced Workers

Derek Neal · Journal of Labor Economics · 1995 · 1K citations

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Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Alexandre Mas, Amanda Pallais · American Economic Review · 2017 · 809 citations

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Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market

Charles Brown · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1980 · 602 citations

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Returns to Skill, Compensating Differentials, and Gender Bias: Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Wages of White Women and Men

Barbara Kilbourne, Paula England, George Farkas et al. · American Journal of Sociology · 1994 · 482 citations

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Authors

422

  1. WK
    W. Kip Viscusi

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    6 publications · 837 citations

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  2. JH
    Joop Hartog

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    6 publications · 202 citations

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  3. JH
    Joni Hersch

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    5 publications · 550 citations

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  4. PE
    Paula England

    New York University, United States

    4 publications · 788 citations

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  5. BT
    Barry T. Hirsch

    Georgia State University, United States

    4 publications · 166 citations

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Institutions

258

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    2K citations

  2. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    609 citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    13 publications

    815 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    488 citations

  5. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1K citations

  6. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    172 citations

  7. Tinbergen Institute

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    815 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 32 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. Industrial and Labor Relations Review

    20 publications · 1.3K citations

    17

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  3. Journal of Labor Economics

    JOLE · 14 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. The Review of Economics and Statistics

    12 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. American Economic Review

    13 publications · 2.3K citations

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