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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201758
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don; Werner, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703390
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466459
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959660
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a broad set of other industrialized economies, and shows that a model where the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214035
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of resources, consistent with the Kuznets facts. Although variations in the income elasticity of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214040
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Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250613
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Structural Labor Market Changes in France
Estevão, Marcello; Nargis, Nigar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
France posted remarkable gains in employment in the second half of the 1990s, suggesting that, beyond cyclical factors, structural unemployment may have changed in the period. We provide a novel methodology to separate structural from cyclical labor market changes and apply it to French...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233805
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf’s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233878