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Tax Policy and Returns to Education
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977270
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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization choices. Conditioning on personal, economic, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648538
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Firm size and union threat effects across genders : evidence from NLSY79
Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
It is evident that both male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher wages but also have a higher probability of participating in benefit programs than those in smaller establishments. This reinforces the well-documented 'size' effect. Further, the firm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111766
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COVID-19 : a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed - particularly women - in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492229
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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020
This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221068
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The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?
Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971389
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977299
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of … efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459767
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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968005