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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics

Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2019

Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test

Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...

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School to work transition and macroeconomic conditions in the Turkish economy

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2020

In emerging market economies, young people feel like little boats in the ocean, due to the low and uncertain macroeconomic context. In the present study, we examine the school-to-work transition in Turkey over the period 2014-2017 by using a monthly dataset. As most emerging market economies,...

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Active Labour Market Policies, Job Matching and the Czech Miracle

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. …

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Enforcement of Employment Security Regulations, On-The-Job Search and Unemployment Duration

Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

coexistence of strict employment security regulations, significant job-to-job shifts and high long-term unemployment rates in …

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Financial Constraints in Search Equilibrium

Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The Great Recession has indicated that firms' leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated to employment losses when credit conditions deteriorate. We provide further evidence of this drawing on a...

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Returns to Mobility in the Transition to a Market Economy

Boeri, Tito; Flinn, Christopher J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market … generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support … explanations for low mobility in transitional economies, which are based on informational failures, and high costs of moving from …

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The Effects of Employment Protection: Learning from Variable Enforcement

Boeri, Tito; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given threshold scale and workers with temporary contracts are not subject to the most restrictive provisions. This...

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