disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of …

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 … using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures which capture positional movements in the distribution of earnings …. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good … proxy for lifetime mobility. We used the Shorrocks (1978) and the Fields (2008) index. Moreover, we explored the impact of …

in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find that middle-skill occupations have traditionally been more …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill … middle-skill employment fluctuations should include industry-level employment effects and a labor force participation margin …