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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2008
fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759915
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764046
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Economic development and female labor participation in the Middle East and North Africa : a test of the U-shape hypothesis
Verme, Paolo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 3, pp. 1-21
(Investment in Women's Human Capital and Economic Development 1995) and observed elsewhere. This paper tests the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483457
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Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis
Verme, Paolo - 2017
The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973106
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Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income commenwealth of independent states countries
Verme, Paolo - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003351491
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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment. -- labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994539
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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
relegation of new entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) as well as the less skilled to temporary jobs or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779856
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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139655
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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
relegation of new entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) as well as the less skilled to temporary jobs or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139696
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Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for 21 countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases workers' willingness to make firm-specific investments. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989846