Econometrics of healthy human resources

Friday, May 28 Keynote speech: Tor Eriksson , Aarhus School of Business:HEALTHY PERSONNEL POLICIES Session 1a: Education and health / Session 1b: Pay and performance / Session 2a: Job satisfaction / Session 2b: Work organization and performance / Session 3a: Health out and after work / Session 3b: HRM and productivity / Session 4: Health, behaviours and employment / Saturday, May 29 Session 5a : Unhealthy habits / Session 5b : Health & socio-economic consequences / 10.15 – 11.00 Poster session & Coffee Break / Session 6a: Gender, health and labour / Session 6b: Ethnic discrimination / Session 7a: Health institutions & policies / Session 7b: Segregation and employment / Session 8a: Human capital, wages and productivity Session 8b: Work trajectories / 17.00- Closing of the conferenc

Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?

This article provides first evidence on the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers’ wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the earnings distribution and by gender. Findings, based on unique matched employer–employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing industry for the period 2002–2010, show that workers earn significantly higher wages when employed in more upstream firms. Yet, the gains from upstreamness are found to be very unequally shared among workers. Unconditional quantile estimates suggest that male top earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be unfairly rewarded. Quantile decompositions further show that these differences in wage premia account for a substantial part of the gender wage gap, especially at the top of the earnings distribution.SCOPUS: cp.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe