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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
between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123991
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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Tan, Michelle - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
colleagues employed in the same occupation. On balance, women's noncognitive skills give them a slight wage advantage. Finally …This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so …, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490571
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124131
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-95. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136575
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Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labour Force Participation Over a Century
Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Married women's labour force participation has increased dramatically over the last century. Why this has occurred has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it develops a dynamic model of culture in which individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656274
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of those elements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792405
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When do 'Female' Occupations Pay More?
Harmgart, Heike; Jurajda, Stepan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662124
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Gender Roles and Technological Progress
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
their participation in the labour force, thus providing the incentive to invest in market skills, which in turn reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666426
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662001