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Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2015

This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of … of the gender wage gap. An updated longitudinal analysis using the CPS data is also provided. This examination of two … advantage of offering a longer panel. Analysis of the former suggests the reduction in gender composition effects observed for …

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Promotion and wages in mid-career : gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth … negative, and not just for females. -- mid-career ; early career ; promotion ; wages ; wage growth ; gender ; unionism ; public …

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Gender and competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …

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Part-time jobs : what women want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

; satisfaction ; working hours ; gender …

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Does atypical work help the jobless? : Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS cohort analysis

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2006

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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The reservation wage unemployment duration nexus

Addison, John T.; Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro - 2010

A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...

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Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment and unemployment : a cross-country analysis

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...

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Job search methods and outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process is also evaluated in terms of the periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded...

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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...

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Six ways to leave unemployment

Portugal, Pedro (contributor); Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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