Explore: Wage Differential

Wage differential is a term used in labour economics to analyze the relation between the wage rate and the unpleasantness, risk, or other undesirable

approach in the same year. Oaxaca's original research question was the wage differential between two different groups of workers (male vs. female), but the

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor

In labor economics, an efficiency wage is a wage paid in excess of the market-clearing wage to increase the labor productivity of workers. Specifically

and W A {\displaystyle W_{A}} is real wage in the agricultural industry. Therefore, due to the wage differential between the agricultural and manufacturing

decision is based on expected income differentials between rural and urban areas rather than just wage differentials. This implies that rural-urban migration

identifying the explained and unexplained portions of the gender wage differentials or wage gap is the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition procedure. Another type

data on wage differentials from a variety of sample surveys conducted in multiple regions of the country. For 1940 his estimates of the gender wage gap range

Nichols, Len M. (1983). "Wage-Risk Premiums and Workers' Compensation: A Refinement of Estimates of Compensating Wage Differential". The Journal of Political

the wage differential between men and women. Studies examining the gender pay gap in the United States show that a much of the wage differential remains