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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Why Do Employers Establish Retirement Savings Plans? Evidence from State "Auto-IRA" Policies
Bloomfield, Adam; Goodman, Lucas; Rao, Manita; Slavov, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Several states have recently attempted to boost retirement saving by adopting "auto-IRA" policies that require employers not currently offering an employer-sponsored retirement plan (ESRP) to either (1) establish an ESRP or (2) enroll employees in state-facilitated Individual Retirement Accounts...
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Chapter 5. Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining
Podgursky, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 279-313). 2011
While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed economies and research on their performance effects. Since these compensation...
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Labour Market Reform in Germany : How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity...
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045708
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland: Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew; Kowalski, Przemyslaw - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046206
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Union wage effects : what are the economic implications of union wage bargaining for workers, firms, and society
Bryson, Alex - 2014
successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …
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Informality and the expansion of social protection programs: Evidence from Mexico
Azuara, Oliver; Marinescu, Ioana - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 938-950
Many countries are moving from employer-based to universal health coverage, which can generate crowd out. In Mexico, Seguro Popular provides public health coverage to the uninsured. Using the gradual roll-out of the system at the municipality level, we estimate that Seguro Popular had no effect...
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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …
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