Showing 1 - 10 of 1,813
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762270
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700965
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they are more likely to be employed part time and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884108
-level management positions within firms, and this result is robust to controlling for firm size, workforce composition, federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541271
of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general … increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822505
We analyze first time parents’ work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner’s (change of) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family’s immigrant background. This study explores both issues in addition to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763840
match between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761793
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762037
colleagues employed in the same occupation. On balance, women's noncognitive skills give them a slight wage advantage. Finally …This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so …, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039653
This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the … relationships differs for men and women, however. Non-cognitive skills (intelligence and impulsivity) also influence movement into … higher-paid occupations, but in ways that are similar for men and women. On balance, non-cognitive skills provide an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548715