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Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women
González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent but rather important. We compare male and female...
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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149158
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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761876
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703436
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and...
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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?
Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566351
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
DiNardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233814
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Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
Jurajda, Stepán; Paligorova, Teodora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703646