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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019
of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156199
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Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Asadullah, Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradoxof the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of jobsatisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859523
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Male-female labor market participation and the extent of gender-based wage discrimination in Turkey
Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - 2013
Budget Surveys conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute, this study examines the male-female earnings differentials and … measures the extent of pay discrimination in Turkey. To analyze the components of the earnings gap, two methodologies are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445864
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The wage penalty of regional accents
Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Joachim - 2019
Previous work has documented that speaking one's native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141890
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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country: The case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013
mostly linked to an increased likelihood to hold specific occupations rather than increased earnings within occupations …
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in explaining relative wages. We find that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859579
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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa : Implication for Development Policies
Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors...
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320559