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Searching for the cause of the gender gap in employment losses during the COVID-19 Crisis

Kim, Jiyeon - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 53-79

large as the gap in the Employment to Unemployment (E to U) transition rates. Women’s overrepresentation in the face …

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Gender wage disparity and economic prosperity in Pakistan

Javed, Maria Faiq; Jadoon, Atif Khan; Malik, Ayesha; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

The present study is designed to examine the relationship between wage inequalities and economic prosperity in the case of Pakistan. Using provincial-level data for the years 2000 to 2020, the study estimated a multivariate regression model by employing Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL)...

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Skill heterogeneity and market labour income inequality

Medrano Adán, Luís Ángel; Salas-Fumás, Vicente; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 15 (2024) 2, pp. 203-234

Occupational choice models predict that, ceteris paribus, countries with higher dispersion of skill will have higher market labour income inequality. However, an extended conclusion from empirical research is that cross-country variations in dispersion of skill explain little of the variation in...

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Gender effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Swiss labor market

Dubois, Corinne; Lambertini, Luisa; Wu, Yu - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29

worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the pandemic, but we find that women were more likely to uptake short-time work …

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Routine job dynamics in the Swiss labor market

Gschwendt, Christian - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21

I investigate the role of labor market flows in the decline of routine employment in Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 using rich individual-level panel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Existing research on the labor market effects of digital transformation has identified jobs with a...

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Gender unemployment gaps in the EU : blame the family

Bičáková, Alena - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-26

There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 … countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is … permanently withdraw from the labor force after childbirth, the size of gender differences in unemployment strongly correlates …

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Sufficient statistics for frictional wage dispersion and growth

Vejlin, Rune Majlund; Veramendi, Gregory - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 3, pp. 935-979

This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and life‐cycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of search models. Specifically, the correlation...

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Is there an informal employment wage premium? : evidence from Tajikistan

Staneva, Anita V.; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24

This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by JAE, 20:445-465, 2005 and considering self-selection of individuals into...

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Gender gaps in Spain : policies and outcomes over the last three decades

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-103

We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...

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The changing graduate labour market : analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs

Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-25

This paper examines differentiation in the recent evolving graduate labour market in Britain. Using a novel statistically derived indicator of graduate jobs, based on job skill requirements in three-digit occupations obtained from the British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse...

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