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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus … on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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Gender pay gap in a European comparison : positive correlation between the female labor force participation rate and the gender pay gap

Schmieder, Julia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 9, pp. 65-70

gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation …Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which …

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A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables

Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2009

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables. The new approach can easily deal with the commonly encountered and widely discussed "initial conditions problem," as well as the...

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A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables

Keane, Michael P. - 2009

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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries : An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)

Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2021

This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...

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