In other words, the occupational mismatch can explain only 6.2%% of the initial wage gap for workers who work in the least related occupations.19 This is partly because occupational mismatch is less punishing for immigrants (11.66 %) than for native-born workers (12.59 %), as reported in Table 5.
There are currently only 35,202 health care providers, whereas the current number of health facilities requires 125,824 health workers, indicating a gap of 90,722 health workers [ 47].
The policy was a small step towards closing the grotesque gap between the pay of workers and their bosses.
But the wage structure in such workplaces is much more compressed than in the predominantly male-led private sector.Overall, then, policies that reduce the gender gap for the mass of workers may be increasing it at the upper levels of management.
The more unprejudiced firms there are on the market, the greater is the wage gap between both types of workers.
Thus, F can be interpreted as the redundancy pay gap between these types of workers.12 Furthermore, there is a probability (alpha ) that a temporary contract may be transformed into a permanent one in the same job.13 Following Dolado et al.
Second, even without technical innovations, physical capital is usually more complementary to skilled labor, being then a source of an increasing productivity gap across workers with different education levels.
Before the availability of the MxFLS, previous studies on wage gaps between different types of workers in Mexico were restricted to urban areas as representative data on the whole population were not available before the publication of the MxFLS.2 This study uses the second MxFLS wave which consists of data collected in the second half of 2005 and early 2006.
Britain reckons on filling the gap through an endless stream of workers from new EU states.
Last year, even in the grip of a recession that has spared no group of workers, the gap between what a college graduate earned and what everyone else earned reached a record.
The gap between the sectoral shares of workers in the manufacturing and service sectors widened.
