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probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …
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Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family … main determinant of the observed gap in labor supply between college men and women. Furthermore, with respect to hours …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women. …
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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...
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size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …
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and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is …
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of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …
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We analyze trends in nursing education in the Philippines during a period of rising and falling demand for Philippine … nurses in the developed countries. Based on focus group discussion data obtained in the Philippines, we examine students …
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Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
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This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is complementary to that of White ethnic group. This finding supports...
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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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