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Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women

González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent but rather important. We compare male and female...

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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England

MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...

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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and...

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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose...

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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...

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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan

Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … breastfeeding practices in Japan. …

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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade

Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …

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