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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …’s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …
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with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … decades has been documented, perhaps due to a Second Shift effect where women work more but still bear the brunt of housework … and those with older children. Our estimates suggest that Québec's family policies led to a small decrease in parents …
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This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...
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We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
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respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to … vary with religiosity. This might be a reason for differentiation in family equivalence scales. For Arab families we did …
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family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre …
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Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...
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