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Employment and wages before and after incarceration : evidence from Hungary
Czafit, Bence; Köllő, János - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 21, pp. 1-21
We study the entry into legitimate employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-08. The employment rate of the prisoners falls short of 20% one year before incarceration, and they earn 25% below the national average. We identify the effect of...
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Nominal and real wage rigidity : does nationality matter?
Cabral, Sónia; Duarte, Cláudia - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 13, pp. 1-20
We assess the differences in downward nominal and real wage rigidity between natives and immigrants in Portugal, using … would receive a wage cut in the absence of rigidity. We found that the differences between natives and immigrants are not … substantial, but immigrants are more prone to institutional-related rigidities. …
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschach, Nick - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 69 (2016) 3, pp. 714-736
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Understanding the native-immigrant wage gap using matched employer-employee data : evidence from Germany
Bartolucci, Cristian - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 67 (2014) 4, pp. 1166-1202
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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...
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Youth unemployment in Greece : measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
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The effects of father's worklessness on young adults in the UK
Zwysen, Wouter - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 2, pp. 1-15
Using the United Kingdom household longitudinal study (UKHLS), this paper shows the effect of experiencing a father being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-working fathers work less and are less satisfied while working despite similar wages and...
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Revisiting German labour market reform effects : a panel data analysis for occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-43
The role of the 2000’s German labour market reforms in boosting the German economy has been widely discussed. Considering that one of the main objectives of these reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use high-frequency administrative data to present new details...
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap
New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 67 (2014) 2, pp. 335-361
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The complexity of immigrant generations : implications for assessing the socioeconomic integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 70 (2017) 5, pp. 1146-1175
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