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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359856
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …’s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822160
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First Time Parents’ Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam: Father’s Part-Time Work, Family’s Immigrant Background and Mother’s Work for Pay When the Infant Is Very Young
Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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
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Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gökce - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764610
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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566628
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761793
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279256
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779436
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Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender … and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after controlling for worker and job characteristics) is about 20% and did … not change between 1995 and 2006. Furthermore, the gender gap in wages is driven mainly by differences in returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884108
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When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?
Jurajda, Stepán; Harmgart, Heike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap on the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233903