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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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Just like a woman? : new comparative evidence on the gender income gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained. In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
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Commuting patterns, the spatial distribution of jobs and the gender pay gap in the U. S.
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they bear a disproportionate share of housework and...
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Immigrant overeducation across two generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
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Earnings discrimination in the workplace
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace …. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their … research evidence on earnings discrimination as one source of earnings inequality within the workplace. The ability of …
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Non-standard employment and wage differences across gender : a quantile regression approach
Duman, Anil - 2020
The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender and decompose the gap to understand the role of endowments and returns in generating the earning differences. Our findings show that non-standard employment reduces wages for...
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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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