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The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women’s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...

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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a … similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries …

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women’s labor supply behavior from 1980 to 2000. We find that their labor supply function for annual hours shifted sharply to the right in the 1980s, with little shift in the 1990s. In an accounting sense, this is the...

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces contracting it. The result was a relatively constant level of inequality. Privatisation was the...

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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress … racial and ethnic differences in male earnings from 1950 through 2010 using data from the decennial census and American … Community Surveys. Emphasis is given to annual rather than weekly or hourly earnings. Treatment of imputed earnings greatly …

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